FORTE
Yes, FORTE was the Wordle answer on July 24, 2024 (Wordle #1131).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːteɪ//fɔːˈteɪ//ˈfɔːti/
- Noun
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A strength or talent; a strong point.
“He writes respectably, but poetry is not his forte.”
- Noun
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The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt.
- Adverb
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Loudly, as a dynamic in a piece of music.
“The musicians played the passage forte.”
- Adjective
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Loud.
“This passage is forte, then there's a diminuendo to mezzo piano.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Borrowed 1640–50; earlier fort < Middle French; disyllabic pronunciation by association with Italian forte, from Latin fortis (“strong”). Doublet of fort and fortis.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it FAWRTAY.
Related meanings
Synonyms strength loud specialty loudly speciality
Opposites PIANO
In a sentence
That is not my forte.
Listening is not his forte.
Use FORTE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% 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: July 24, 2024 (#1131).
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See what the public sample says →FORTE in Connections
2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1172
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FORTE appeared in KNACK (green group).
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· Puzzle #1070
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FORTE appeared in MUSIC PERFORMANCE DIRECTIONS (blue group).
How FORTE performs as a guess
FORTE 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 85.4% of games, misses completely in 14.6%, and leaves about 117 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,616 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe FORTE 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 FORTE 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 FORTE in 2 guesses.
Feedback distribution
FORTE can come back 115 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 FORTE; 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 FORTE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to FORTE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing FORTE:
Research on FORTE
Game-tree analysis and word research for FORTE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with FORTE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,296 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 #833 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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
- FORTE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (2.5 of 5).
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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).