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EXULT

Yes, EXULT was the Wordle answer on December 4, 2021 (Wordle #168).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzʌlt/

Verb

To rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph; to triumph (over).

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: December 4, 2021 (#168).

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The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How EXULT performs as a guess

EXULT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.9% of games, misses completely in 18.1%, and leaves about 217 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,424 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

E___T E in the 1st position and T in the 5th position E__L_ E in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _X__T X in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in EXULT.

First-turn measures

All four describe EXULT used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.32 Entropy (bits)
217 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 39% of evaluated openers
1.63 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How EXULT performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#11,424 Rank among openers
Opening with EXULT left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.79 average. It ranks #11,424 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
748
4 guesses
1,234
5 guesses
290
6 guesses
34
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
25%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L E E T
E X U L T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches EXULT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

EXULT can come back 75 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

450 answers
429 answers
170 answers
153 answers
148 answers
123 answers
105 answers
86 answers
64 answers
59 answers
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48 answers
42 answers
28 answers
25 answers
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19 answers
17 answers
15 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for EXULT; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

E1X8U1L1T1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.

Try next

SONAR CAIRN RAINY LAREE TARTE SNARY

Strategy after playing EXULT

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to EXULT.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EXULT:

19% chance
Suggested:
SONAR
18% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
7% chance
Suggested:
SONAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

19.0% →
SONAR 5.50 bits
18.1% →
CAIRN 6.06 bits
7.2% →
SONAR 5.14 bits
6.4% →
RAINY 4.96 bits
6.2% →
LAREE 4.63 bits
5.2% →
TARTE 5.00 bits
4.4% →
SNARY 4.47 bits
3.6% →
SONAR 4.92 bits
2.7% →
IDYLL 4.17 bits
2.5% →
SURGE 4.63 bits

Research on EXULT

Game-tree analysis and word research for EXULT, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with EXULT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,759 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with EXULT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it IHGZUHLT.

Rhymes with ADULT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, EXULT is a kind of joy or cheer.

Synonyms triumph rejoice

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
EXULT sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

In a sentence

How long shall the wicked exult?
© tatoeba.org contributor MrShoval (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).