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FINCH

Yes, FINCH was the Wordle answer on April 6, 2024 (Wordle #1022).

As an opener, it rules out about 86.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /fɪnt͡ʃ/

Noun

Any Eurasian goldfinch (of species Carduelis carduelis, syn. Fringilla carduelis).

Noun

Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.

Verb

To hunt for finches, to go finching.

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: April 6, 2024 (#1022).

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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 FINCH performs as a guess

FINCH 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 66.6% of games, misses completely in 33.4%, and leaves about 328 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,414 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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___H F in the 1st position and H in the 5th position F__C_ F in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _I__H I in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FINCH 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.

4.13 Entropy (bits)
328 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
86.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 29% of evaluated openers
1.82 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FINCH 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#6,414 Rank among openers
Opening with FINCH solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,414 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
887
4 guesses
1,193
5 guesses
212
6 guesses
19
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
1 vowels
Common:
IN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
25%
All gray
33%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
C H U M P
F I N C H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FINCH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

FINCH can come back 86 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

793 answers
202 answers
188 answers
144 answers
113 answers
100 answers
100 answers
59 answers
59 answers
52 answers
39 answers
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34 answers
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28 answers
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19 answers
16 answers
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13 answers
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11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4I1N1C3H4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Try next

SOARE ROATE STALE CARLE STARE GRATE

Strategy after playing FINCH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FINCH:

33% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
9% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
8% chance
Suggested:
STALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.4% →
SOARE 6.18 bits
8.5% →
ROATE 5.33 bits
7.9% →
STALE 5.46 bits
6.1% →
CARLE 5.69 bits
4.8% →
STARE 5.58 bits
4.2% →
GRATE 4.69 bits
4.2% →
SOLED 4.67 bits
2.5% →
SAYER 4.71 bits
2.5% →
ALURE 5.06 bits
2.2% →
SAUTE 4.60 bits

Research on FINCH

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

Optimal play

Opening with FINCH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #7,950 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.87 guesses at best and is rank #3,426 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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

One syllable Say it FIHNCH.

Rhymes with LYNCH PINCH WINCH CINCH SYNCH

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FINCH is a kind of bird.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FINCH 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.

In a sentence

Do you want to buy a finch?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
That sounds like a blue finch.
© 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).