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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier for first-turn info

FEAST

Yes, FEAST was the Wordle answer on November 24, 2022 (Wordle #523).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfiːst/[ˈfɪi̯st]

Noun

A holiday, festival, especially a religious one

Noun

A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.

“We had a feast to celebrate the harvest.”

Verb

To partake in a feast, or large meal.

“I feasted on turkey and dumplings.”

Verb

To dwell upon (something) with delight.

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: November 24, 2022 (#523).

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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 FEAST performs as a guess

FEAST 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 86.8% of games, misses completely in 13.2%, and leaves about 118 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,352 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___T F in the 1st position and T in the 5th position F__S_ F in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _E__T E in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FEAST 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.

5.28 Entropy (bits)
118 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.67 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FEAST 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#1,352 Rank among openers
Opening with FEAST left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,352 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
931
4 guesses
1,192
5 guesses
142
6 guesses
10
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:
AEST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
38%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L E A N S
A B B E Y
F E A S T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FEAST in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

FEAST can come back 120 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

314 answers
258 answers
197 answers
120 answers
102 answers
92 answers
88 answers
75 answers
68 answers
64 answers
57 answers
46 answers
37 answers
34 answers
34 answers
33 answers
32 answers
32 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4E1A1S1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

COULD DROLE CAROL LARGE SLINK GENRE

Strategy after playing FEAST

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FEAST:

13% chance
Suggested:
COULD
11% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
8% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.2% →
COULD 5.58 bits
10.9% →
DROLE 5.32 bits
8.3% →
CAROL 5.30 bits
5.1% →
LARGE 4.64 bits
4.3% →
SLINK 4.69 bits
3.9% →
GENRE 4.24 bits
3.7% →
TOUCH 5.07 bits
3.2% →
PLIER 4.60 bits
2.9% →
CRINE 4.27 bits
2.7% →
TRITE 4.71 bits

Research on FEAST

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

Optimal play

Opening with FEAST, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,508 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 FEAST can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, 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 FEEST.

Rhymes with LEAST BEAST YEAST

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FEAST is a kind of dinner or thing.

Synonyms spread feed banquet fiesta

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FEAST sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 9 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with taste (4.3 of 5).

In a sentence

How about we have a feast?
© tatoeba.org contributor soredewa (CC BY 2.0 FR)
It is a feast for the eyes.
© tatoeba.org contributor Tom9358 (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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).