FIERY
Yes, FIERY was the Wordle answer on January 17, 2026 (Wordle #1673).
As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪəɹi//ˈfaɪɹi/
- Adjective
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Of or relating to fire.
- Adjective
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Burning or glowing.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: January 17, 2026 (#1673).
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See what the public sample says →How FIERY performs as a guess
FIERY 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 85.9% of games, misses completely in 14.1%, and leaves about 159 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,251 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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First-turn measures
All four describe FIERY 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How FIERY 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches FIERY in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
FIERY can come back 99 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for FIERY; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing FIERY
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to FIERY.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing FIERY:
Research on FIERY
Game-tree analysis and word research for FIERY, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with FIERY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,604 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 FIERY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, 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.
Related meanings
Synonyms flaming ardent fervent hot passionate
Opposites cold
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- FIERY 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.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.2 of 5).
In a sentence
He gave a fiery speech.
The sun was setting a fiery red.
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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).