FINAL
Yes, FINAL was the Wordle answer on January 8, 2024 (Wordle #933).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪnl̩//ˈfaɪn(ə)l/[-nəɫ]
- Noun
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A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class.
- Noun
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A final examination taken at the end of the final year of an undergraduate course, which contributes towards a student's degree classification.
- Adjective
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Last; ultimate.
“final solution; the final day of a school term”
- Adjective
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Conclusive; decisive.
“a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a final issue”
Alternative forms: finall
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English final, fynal, fynall, from Old French final, from Latin fīnālis (“of or relating to the end or to boundaries”), from fīnis (“end”); see fine. Replaced native English endly (“final”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it FYNUHL.
Related meanings
Synonyms last net terminal concluding ultimate closing
Opposites opening
In a sentence
I will have the final say.
You should have the final say.
Use FINAL in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% 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
Used oncePast Wordle answer: January 8, 2024 (#933).
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See what the public sample says →FINAL in Connections
3 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #918
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FINAL appeared in TOURNAMENT ROUNDS (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #739
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FINAL appeared in COMPONENTS OF ONE’S GRADE (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #210
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FINAL appeared in KINDS OF EXAMS (green group).
How FINAL performs as a guess
FINAL 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 80.5% of games, misses completely in 19.5%, and leaves about 182 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,039 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe FINAL 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 FINAL 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 FINAL in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
FINAL can come back 106 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 FINAL; 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 FINAL
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to FINAL.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing FINAL:
Research on FINAL
Game-tree analysis and word research for FINAL, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with FINAL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #5,066 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 FINAL can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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
- FINAL sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 191 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 A2); among the first words English learners study.
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.