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FAINT

Yes, FAINT was the Wordle answer on September 3, 2024 (Wordle #1172).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /feɪnt/

Adjective

Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness

“I felt faint after my fifth gin and tonic.”

Adjective

Lacking courage, spirit, or energy; cowardly; dejected.

Noun

The act of fainting, syncope.

“She suffered another faint.”

Verb

To lose consciousness through a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions).

“A fainting fit.”

Alternative forms: feint

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: September 3, 2024 (#1172).

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

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How FAINT performs as a guess

FAINT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.3% of games, misses completely in 18.7%, and leaves about 156 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,687 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

F___T F in the 1st position and T in the 5th position F__N_ F in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _A__T A in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SOLER SCARE SOREL SHOER SOLED DORSE
Words starting with F Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.97 Entropy (bits)
156 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 82% of evaluated openers
0.98 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FAINT 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#1,687 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FAINT ranks #1,687 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
964
4 guesses
1,123
5 guesses
178
6 guesses
13
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AINT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
40%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C L I N T
S P O O F
F A I N T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FAINT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

117 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

442
265
132
131
117
107
94
69
65
58
52
51
48
44
41
38
38
37
32
26
24
24
19
17
14
14
13
13
13
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FAINT:

19% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
11% chance
Suggested:
SCARE
6% chance
Suggested:
SOREL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.7% →
SOLER 6.02 bits
11.2% →
SCARE 5.40 bits
5.6% →
SOREL 4.71 bits
5.6% →
SHOER 5.55 bits
5.0% →
SOLED 5.03 bits
4.5% →
DORSE 5.02 bits
4.0% →
CLOSE 4.87 bits
2.9% →
SLATE 4.81 bits
2.8% →
SOREE 4.90 bits
2.5% →
SONDE 4.27 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4A1I1N1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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