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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess F tier for first-turn info

FLOOD

Yes, FLOOD was the Wordle answer on June 7, 2022 (Wordle #353).

As an opener, it rules out about 83.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /flʌd//flʊd/

Noun

An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.

Noun

A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.

“a flood of complaints”

Verb

To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.

“People flooded into the streets in protest.”

Verb

To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.

“The floor was flooded with beer.”

Alternative forms: floud

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 7, 2022 (#353).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 7, 2022 (#353).

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

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How FLOOD performs as a guess

FLOOD 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 62.8% of games, misses completely in 37.2%, and leaves about 404 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,251 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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___D F in the 1st position and D in the 5th position F__O_ F in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _L__D L in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FLOOD 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.

3.76 Entropy (bits)
404 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
83.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.18 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FLOOD 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#10,251 Rank among openers
Opening with FLOOD left 3 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 3.77 average. It ranks #10,251 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
752
4 guesses
1,258
5 guesses
277
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
LO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
63%
Green tile
29%
All gray
37%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
B L O O D
F L O O D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FLOOD in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

FLOOD can come back 78 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

884 answers
279 answers
190 answers
138 answers
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107 answers
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7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4L1O1O1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

TARSE RAISE RONTE RAINE STANE SPACE

Strategy after playing FLOOD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FLOOD:

37% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
12% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
8% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.2% →
TARSE 6.45 bits
11.8% →
RAISE 5.39 bits
8.0% →
RONTE 5.28 bits
5.8% →
RAINE 5.48 bits
4.6% →
STANE 4.78 bits
4.5% →
SPACE 5.08 bits
2.5% →
SANER 4.72 bits
2.4% →
LATER 3.94 bits
2.3% →
ARISE 4.71 bits
2.0% →
URINE 4.76 bits

Research on FLOOD

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

Optimal play

Opening with FLOOD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,594 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 FLOOD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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 FLUHD.

Rhymes with BLOOD

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FLOOD is a kind of phenomenon or lot.

Synonyms SWAMP torrent overflow deluge

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FLOOD sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 22 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.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 88 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).

In a sentence

The river is in flood.
© tatoeba.org contributor sundown (CC BY 2.0 FR)
We lost everything in the flood.
© 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).