FLOOR
Yes, FLOOR was the Wordle answer on October 14, 2022 (Wordle #482).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /flɔː//floɹ//floː/
- Noun
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The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
“The room has a wooden floor.”
- Noun
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The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
“The leaves covering the forest floor provide many hiding-places for small animals.”
- Verb
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To cover or furnish with a floor.
“floor a house with pine boards”
- Verb
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To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English floor, floour, flor, flore, flour, flur, vlor, from Old English flōr (“floor, pavement; deck; gangplank”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōr, from Proto-Germanic *flōraz (“ground; floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂ros (“floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it FLAWR.
Rhymes with STORE SCORE SHORE CORPS ADORE
Related meanings
Synonyms STORY LEVEL base SHOCK deck dump
In a sentence
He was on the floor.
She was on the floor.
Use FLOOR in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 88.5% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: October 14, 2022 (#482).
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See what the public sample says →FLOOR in Connections
5 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1179
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FLOOR appeared in FLABBERGAST (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #847
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FLOOR appeared in FLABBERGAST (green group).
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· Puzzle #438
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FLOOR appeared in TIER (green group).
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· Puzzle #310
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FLOOR appeared in FLABBERGAST (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #96
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FLOOR appeared in GYMNASTICS APPARATUS (blue group).
How FLOOR performs as a guess
FLOOR is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 74.0% of games, misses completely in 26.0%, and leaves about 274 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,241 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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.
First-turn measures
All four describe FLOOR 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How FLOOR 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches FLOOR in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
FLOOR can come back 86 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for FLOOR; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
Strategy after playing FLOOR
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to FLOOR.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing FLOOR:
Research on FLOOR
Game-tree analysis and word research for FLOOR, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with FLOOR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,811 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 FLOOR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- FLOOR sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 87 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 A1); among the first words English learners study.
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.