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FINAL

Yes, FINAL was the Wordle answer on January 8, 2024 (Wordle #933).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪnl̩//ˈfaɪn(ə)l/[-nəɫ]

Noun

A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class.

Noun

A final examination taken at the end of the final year of an undergraduate course, which contributes towards a student's degree classification.

Adjective

Last; ultimate.

“final solution; the final day of a school term”

Adjective

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.

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: January 8, 2024 (#933).

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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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How FINAL performs as a guess

FINAL 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 80.6% of games, misses completely in 19.4%, and leaves about 180 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

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

F___L F in the 1st position and L in the 5th position F__A_ F in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _I__L I in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

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

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.

4.75 Entropy (bits)
180 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 68% of evaluated openers
1.20 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,039 Rank among openers
Opening with FINAL left 1 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 3.64 average. It ranks #3,039 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
917
4 guesses
1,182
5 guesses
174
6 guesses
13
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
2 vowels
Common:
AILN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
28%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

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

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:

460 answers
329 answers
140 answers
135 answers
123 answers
119 answers
90 answers
73 answers
72 answers
59 answers
52 answers
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42 answers
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31 answers
28 answers
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14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4I1N1A1L1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

TORSE CRATE SOUCE TRUCE SALLE SCOTE

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:

19% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
14% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
6% chance
Suggested:
SOUCE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.4% →
TORSE 6.34 bits
13.9% →
CRATE 5.65 bits
5.9% →
SOUCE 5.25 bits
5.7% →
TRUCE 5.49 bits
5.2% →
TORSE 5.38 bits
5.0% →
SALLE 4.86 bits
3.8% →
SCOTE 4.42 bits
3.1% →
TRONE 4.60 bits
3.0% →
TRONE 4.51 bits
2.5% →
TREAD 4.45 bits

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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it FYNUHL.

Rhymes with VINYL VINAL

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FINAL is a kind of match or test.

Synonyms last net terminal concluding ultimate closing

Opposites opening

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.

In a sentence

I will have the final say.
© tatoeba.org contributor Aghanim (CC BY 2.0 FR)
You should have the final say.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (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.