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FAITH

Yes, FAITH was the Wordle answer on September 27, 2024 (Wordle #1196).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /feɪθ/

Noun

A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.

“The faithfulness of Old Faithful gives us faith in it.”

Noun

A conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.

“I have faith that my prayers will be answered.”

Adverb

Alternative form of in faith (“really, truly”).

Interjection

Ellipsis of by my faith.

Alternative forms: feith, feithe, fayth, faythe

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 27, 2024 (#1196).

See the full page for that puzzle: September 27, 2024 (#1196).

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

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How FAITH performs as a guess

FAITH 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 79.7% of games, misses completely in 20.3%, and leaves about 184 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,052 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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.

F___H F in the 1st position and H in the 5th position F__T_ F in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__H A in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FAITH 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.

4.72 Entropy (bits)
184 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 66% of evaluated openers
1.23 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FAITH 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,052 Rank among openers
Opening with FAITH solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #5,052 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
893
4 guesses
1,154
5 guesses
227
6 guesses
13
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
36%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S N I P Y
F A I T H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FAITH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

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

482 answers
279 answers
165 answers
159 answers
156 answers
120 answers
103 answers
72 answers
50 answers
45 answers
45 answers
43 answers
43 answers
38 answers
35 answers
27 answers
25 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4A1I1T1H4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SOLER LEARN LINER SLYER SENOR SNORE

Strategy after playing FAITH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FAITH:

20% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
12% chance
Suggested:
LEARN
7% chance
Suggested:
LINER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.3% →
SOLER 5.99 bits
11.8% →
LEARN 5.44 bits
7.0% →
LINER 5.17 bits
6.7% →
SLYER 4.91 bits
6.6% →
SENOR 5.45 bits
5.1% →
SNORE 4.70 bits
4.3% →
LEAST 5.09 bits
3.0% →
CORSE 5.24 bits
2.1% →
SENOR 4.41 bits
1.9% →
SLADE 4.44 bits

Research on FAITH

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

Optimal play

Opening with FAITH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,505 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 FAITH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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

One syllable Say it FAYTH.

Rhymes with RAITH HAITH

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FAITH is a kind of belief or content.

Synonyms TRUST religion

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FAITH sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 66 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 41 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with internal bodily sensation (3.4 of 5).

In a sentence

I have faith in you.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)
We have faith in you.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).