FIGHT
FIGHT is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /faɪt//fəɪt/[fəɪʔ]
- Verb
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Senses relating to physical conflict:
“My grandfather fought the Nazis in World War II.”
- Verb
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To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success.
“He fought for the Democrats in the last election.”
- Noun
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An occasion of fighting.
“One of them got stuck in a chokehold and got stabbed to death during the fight.”
- Noun
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A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
“Watch your language! Are you looking for a fight?”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English fight, feyght, fiȝt, fecht, from Old English feoht, ġefeoht (“fight”), from Proto-West Germanic *fehtan (“to fight”), from Proto-Germanic *fehtą, *gafehtą (“fight, struggle”), from Proto-Germanic *fehtaną (“to struggle with”). Cognate with Dutch gevecht (“fight”), German Gefecht (“fight”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it FYT.
Rhymes with RIGHT MIGHT NIGHT WHITE LIGHT
Related meanings
Synonyms PRESS campaign battle fighting push conflict
In a sentence
I was in a fight.
You were in a fight.
Use FIGHT in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 86.4% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
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
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.
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See what the public sample says →FIGHT in Connections
5 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #981
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FIGHT appeared in STRESS RESPONSES (purple group).
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· Puzzle #737
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FIGHT appeared in METTLE (green group).
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· Puzzle #407
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FIGHT appeared in FOOD ___ (purple group).
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· Puzzle #290
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FIGHT appeared in QUARREL (green group).
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· Puzzle #209
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FIGHT appeared in THINGS TO PICK (blue group).
How FIGHT performs as a guess
FIGHT 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 67.7% of games, misses completely in 32.3%, and leaves about 325 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,166 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe FIGHT 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 FIGHT 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 FIGHT in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
FIGHT can come back 86 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 FIGHT; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing FIGHT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to FIGHT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing FIGHT:
Research on FIGHT
Game-tree analysis and word research for FIGHT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with FIGHT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,038 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 FIGHT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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
- FIGHT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 170 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: 69 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.6 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).