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Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

FADER

FADER is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪdə/

Noun

A device used to raise and lower sound volume.

Noun

A program or algorithm for fading out colors.

Adjective

comparative form of fade: more fade

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How FADER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FADER as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 84.4% of games, misses completely in 15.6%, and leaves about 136 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,450 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.
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Useful pattern pages

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

F___R F in the 1st position and R in the 5th position F__E_ F in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position FA_ER F in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FADER 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.

4.99 Entropy (bits)
136 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.95 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FADER 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,450 Rank among openers
Opening with FADER left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,450 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
882
4 guesses
1,185
5 guesses
202
6 guesses
12
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:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
33%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

FADER can come back 108 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

370 answers
223 answers
173 answers
155 answers
123 answers
119 answers
114 answers
87 answers
77 answers
77 answers
65 answers
57 answers
40 answers
38 answers
32 answers
32 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4A1D2E1R1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SOILY STILE SLANT COURT SONLY TOISE

Strategy after playing FADER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FADER:

16% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
9% chance
Suggested:
STILE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.6% →
SOILY 5.75 bits
9.4% →
STILE 5.31 bits
7.3% →
SLANT 5.37 bits
6.5% →
COURT 5.16 bits
5.2% →
SLANT 5.14 bits
5.0% →
SONLY 4.64 bits
4.8% →
TOISE 4.49 bits
3.7% →
COAST 4.55 bits
3.2% →
TWEEN 4.21 bits
3.2% →
SOILY 3.44 bits

Research on FADER

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

Optimal play

Opening with FADER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,381 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 FADER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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 first syllable Say it FAYDUR.

Rhymes with NADIR SEDER WADER LADER

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FADER sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.4 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).