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

FETCH

Yes, FETCH was the Wordle answer on September 3, 2025 (Wordle #1537).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /fɛt͡ʃ//fɑt͡ʃ/

Verb

To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.

“You have to fetch some sugar in order to proceed with the recipe.”

Verb

To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

“If you put some new tyres on it, and clean it up a bit, the car should fetch about $5,000”

Noun

An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.

Noun

The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.

Alternative forms: fatch, fotch

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, 2025 (#1537).

See the full page for that puzzle: September 3, 2025 (#1537).

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

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How FETCH performs as a guess

FETCH 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 78.6% of games, misses completely in 21.4%, and leaves about 229 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,692 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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__C_ F in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _E__H E in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FETCH 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.

4.42 Entropy (bits)
229 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 46% of evaluated openers
1.53 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FETCH 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#6,692 Rank among openers
Opening with FETCH solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #6,692 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
847
4 guesses
1,214
5 guesses
227
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
1 vowels
Common:
ET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
27%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L E E T
F E T I D
F E T C H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FETCH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

FETCH can come back 91 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

507 answers
419 answers
205 answers
127 answers
123 answers
118 answers
62 answers
62 answers
50 answers
49 answers
36 answers
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31 answers
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25 answers
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22 answers
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14 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4E1T1C3H4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

SALON RAILE SAINT SAREE CAROL RANEE

Strategy after playing FETCH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FETCH:

21% chance
Suggested:
SALON
18% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.4% →
SALON 5.91 bits
17.6% →
RAILE 5.30 bits
8.6% →
SAINT 5.55 bits
5.3% →
SAREE 4.77 bits
5.2% →
CAROL 5.30 bits
5.0% →
RANEE 4.59 bits
2.6% →
SNARY 4.89 bits
2.6% →
AROSE 4.71 bits
2.1% →
SORAL 4.67 bits
2.1% →
ROANY 4.66 bits

Research on FETCH

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

Optimal play

Opening with FETCH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,522 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 FETCH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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 FEHCH.

Rhymes with KETCH

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FETCH is a kind of action or channel.

Synonyms get BRING convey take

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FETCH sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 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 sight (3.2 of 5).

In a sentence

I will go back and fetch it.
© tatoeba.org contributor pengpau (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Can you fetch the children from school?
© tatoeba.org contributor rul (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).