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FIELD

Yes, FIELD was the Wordle answer on July 5, 2022 (Wordle #381).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfi(ː)ld/[ˈfɪi̯ɫd]/ˈfi(ː)ʊ̯d/

Noun

A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.

“There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.”

Noun

A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.

“There were some cows grazing in a field.”

Verb

To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.

Verb

To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.

“The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.”

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Middle English feeld, feld (“field”), from Old English feld (“field”), from Proto-West Germanic *felþu (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *felþuz (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“field, plain”) or *pleth₂- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it FEELD.

Rhymes with YIELD WIELD HEALD NEELD

Related meanings

Synonyms area STUDY subject theatre PLAIN theater

In a sentence

What field are you in?
© tatoeba.org contributor Miktsoanit (CC BY 2.0 FR)
We go to the field.
© tatoeba.org contributor carlosalberto (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use FIELD in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.

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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: July 5, 2022 (#381).

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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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FIELD in Connections

10 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How FIELD performs as a guess

FIELD is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.2% of games, misses completely in 19.8%, and leaves about 200 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,747 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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___D F in the 1st position and D in the 5th position F__L_ F in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _I__D I in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FIELD 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.

4.65 Entropy (bits)
200 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FIELD 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,747 Rank among openers
Opening with FIELD left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,747 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
927
4 guesses
1,147
5 guesses
209
6 guesses
8

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
29%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
A R E F Y
F I E L D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FIELD in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

FIELD can come back 102 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

472 answers
388 answers
156 answers
153 answers
116 answers
89 answers
81 answers
72 answers
67 answers
62 answers
48 answers
46 answers
35 answers
34 answers
28 answers
25 answers
24 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4I1E1L1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

ROAST TARSE SAINT SONAR LAREE SHART

Strategy after playing FIELD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FIELD:

20% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
16% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.8% →
ROAST 6.10 bits
16.3% →
TARSE 5.70 bits
6.5% →
SAINT 5.41 bits
6.4% →
SONAR 5.24 bits
4.9% →
LAREE 4.64 bits
3.7% →
SHART 5.25 bits
3.4% →
TRINE 4.57 bits
3.0% →
SHART 4.37 bits
2.8% →
DEARE 4.74 bits
2.6% →
DAUNT 4.52 bits

Research on FIELD

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

Optimal play

Opening with FIELD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,026 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 FIELD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FIELD sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 174 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 94 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.3 of 5).

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).