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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

FLINT

Yes, FLINT was the Wordle answer on January 16, 2025 (Wordle #1307).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /flɪnt/

Noun

A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.

“He used flint to make a fire.”

Noun

A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.

“He used a flint to make a fire.”

Verb

To furnish or decorate an object with flint.

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 16, 2025 (#1307).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How FLINT performs as a guess

FLINT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 76.9% of games, misses completely in 23.1%, and leaves about 198 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,398 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

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

F___T F in the 1st position and T in the 5th position F__N_ F in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _L__T L in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SOARE SALLE SIDER SCARE SPACE CRAPE
Words starting with F Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.72 Entropy (bits)
198 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 67% of evaluated openers
1.23 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FLINT 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#1,398 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FLINT ranks #1,398 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
983
4 guesses
1,109
5 guesses
176
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ILNT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
33%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FLINT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

112 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

545
215
207
157
105
93
79
72
65
56
54
47
37
37
34
31
27
25
22
21
21
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20
18
17
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15
15
15
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FLINT:

23% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
9% chance
Suggested:
SALLE
9% chance
Suggested:
SOARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.1% →
SOARE 6.21 bits
9.1% →
SALLE 5.46 bits
8.8% →
SOARE 5.67 bits
6.7% →
SOARE 5.41 bits
4.5% →
SIDER 5.01 bits
3.9% →
SCARE 5.33 bits
3.4% →
SPACE 4.97 bits
3.1% →
CRAPE 5.00 bits
2.8% →
RANCE 4.55 bits
2.4% →
LIBEL 4.22 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4L1I1N1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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