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FARCE

Yes, FARCE was the Wordle answer on May 11, 2022 (Wordle #326).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /fɑːs//fɑɹs/

Noun

A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.

Noun

A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.

“The farce that we saw last night had us laughing and shaking our heads at the same time.”

Verb

To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.

Verb

To fill full; to stuff.

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: May 11, 2022 (#326).

See the full page for that puzzle: May 11, 2022 (#326).

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

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How FARCE performs as a guess

FARCE 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 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 115 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,509 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___E F in the 1st position and E in the 5th position F__C_ F in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FARCE 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.

5.25 Entropy (bits)
115 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.69 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FARCE 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#2,509 Rank among openers
Opening with FARCE left 1 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 3.63 average. It ranks #2,509 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
82
3 guesses
921
4 guesses
1,146
5 guesses
192
6 guesses
11
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)
86%
Green tile
42%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S U R G E
C A R V E
F A R C E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FARCE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

FARCE can come back 121 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

340 answers
180 answers
152 answers
133 answers
130 answers
121 answers
105 answers
85 answers
71 answers
69 answers
58 answers
51 answers
50 answers
42 answers
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25 answers
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18 answers
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18 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4A1R1C3E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SOILY INTEL SLANT SOLED DROIT SONLY

Strategy after playing FARCE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FARCE:

14% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
8% chance
Suggested:
INTEL
6% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.3% →
SOILY 5.72 bits
7.6% →
INTEL 5.05 bits
6.4% →
SLANT 5.37 bits
5.6% →
SOILY 4.79 bits
5.5% →
SOLED 3.94 bits
5.1% →
DROIT 4.95 bits
4.4% →
SONLY 4.75 bits
3.6% →
GRANT 4.25 bits
3.0% →
SLANT 4.66 bits
2.9% →
SLANT 4.34 bits

Research on FARCE

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

Optimal play

Opening with FARCE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,495 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 FARCE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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 FAHRS.

Rhymes with PARSE CARSE MARSE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FARCE is a kind of comedy or dressing.

Synonyms STUFF travesty

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FARCE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

In a sentence

It was all a farce.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Elon Musk has proven capitalism to be a farce.
© tatoeba.org contributor shekitten (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).