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FLOAT

Yes, FLOAT was the Wordle answer on June 12, 2022 (Wordle #358).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /fləʊt//floʊt//fləʉt/

Verb

To be supported by a fluid of greater density (than the object).

“Helium balloons float in air, while air-filled balloons don't.”

Verb

To cause something to be suspended in a fluid of greater density.

“to float a boat”

Noun

A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.

“Attach the float and the weight to the fishing line, above the hook.”

Noun

A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.

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: June 12, 2022 (#358).

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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 FLOAT performs as a guess

FLOAT 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 84.0% of games, misses completely in 16.0%, and leaves about 144 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,394 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___T F in the 1st position and T in the 5th position F__A_ F in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _L__T L in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FLOAT 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.

4.97 Entropy (bits)
144 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 82% of evaluated openers
0.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FLOAT 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#1,394 Rank among openers
Opening with FLOAT left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,394 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
977
4 guesses
1,108
5 guesses
182
6 guesses
11
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:
ALOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
35%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B L O A T
F L O A T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FLOAT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

FLOAT can come back 115 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

380 answers
279 answers
162 answers
131 answers
128 answers
105 answers
103 answers
94 answers
74 answers
58 answers
51 answers
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50 answers
50 answers
44 answers
41 answers
31 answers
30 answers
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28 answers
21 answers
20 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4L1O1A1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SIREN SACRE MORNE LIBEL SHIRE CRINE

Strategy after playing FLOAT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FLOAT:

16% chance
Suggested:
SIREN
12% chance
Suggested:
SACRE
7% chance
Suggested:
MORNE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.0% →
SIREN 6.08 bits
11.8% →
SACRE 5.36 bits
6.8% →
MORNE 5.12 bits
5.5% →
LIBEL 4.89 bits
5.4% →
SHIRE 5.44 bits
4.4% →
CRINE 4.79 bits
4.3% →
TARTE 4.96 bits
4.0% →
SALLE 4.76 bits
3.1% →
SIREN 5.28 bits
2.4% →
CAROM 4.59 bits

Research on FLOAT

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

Optimal play

Opening with FLOAT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #3,055 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.78 guesses at best and is rank #891 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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 FLOHT.

Rhymes with WROTE QUOTE HAUTE GLOAT BLOAT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FLOAT is a kind of interval or stock.

Synonyms blow swim DRIFT

Opposites sink

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FLOAT sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 9 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 66 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.7 of 5).

In a sentence

Can you float on your back?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I love to float in the water.
© 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; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).