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FLUTE

Yes, FLUTE was the Wordle answer on December 7, 2025 (Wordle #1632).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /flu(ː)t/

Noun

A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.

Noun

A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.

Verb

To play on a flute.

Verb

To make a flutelike sound.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Middle English fleute, floute, flote, from Old French flaute, fleüte, from Old Provençal flaüt, of uncertain origin. Perhaps ultimately from three possibilities:

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it FLOOT.

Rhymes with SHOOT ROUTE FRUIT ACUTE BRUTE

In a sentence

I can play the flute.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Can you play the flute?
© tatoeba.org contributor mailohilohi (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use FLUTE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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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: December 7, 2025 (#1632).

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FLUTE in Connections

4 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How FLUTE performs as a guess

FLUTE 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 83.1% of games, misses completely in 16.9%, and leaves about 155 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,007 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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___E F in the 1st position and E in the 5th position F__T_ F in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _L__E L in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position FL_TE F in the 1st position, L in the 2nd position, T in the 4th position, and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FLUTE 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.

4.89 Entropy (bits)
155 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FLUTE 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#5,007 Rank among openers
Opening with FLUTE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #5,007 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
82
3 guesses
847
4 guesses
1,207
5 guesses
192
6 guesses
23

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
37%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
M U S I C
F L U T E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FLUTE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

FLUTE can come back 113 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

404 answers
253 answers
192 answers
172 answers
150 answers
114 answers
99 answers
94 answers
59 answers
45 answers
45 answers
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34 answers
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15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4L1U1T1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

CAIRN SONAR ROAST LOYAL SETER LEGAL

Strategy after playing FLUTE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FLUTE:

17% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
11% chance
Suggested:
SONAR
8% chance
Suggested:
SONAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.9% →
CAIRN 6.07 bits
10.6% →
SONAR 5.29 bits
8.1% →
SONAR 4.98 bits
7.2% →
ROAST 5.50 bits
6.3% →
LOYAL 5.09 bits
4.8% →
SETER 4.77 bits
4.2% →
LEGAL 4.29 bits
3.9% →
SCARY 4.42 bits
2.5% →
CLANG 4.22 bits
1.9% →
RAINY 4.11 bits

Research on FLUTE

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

Optimal play

Opening with FLUTE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,644 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,594 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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
FLUTE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 93 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (4.2 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); 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).