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FOUND

Yes, FOUND was the Wordle answer on March 28, 2022 (Wordle #282).

As an opener, it rules out about 87.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfaʊ̯nd//ˈfæʊ̯nd//ˈfaːnd/

Verb

simple past and past participle of find

Noun

Food and lodging; board.

Verb

To start (an institution or organization).

Noun

The period of time when a furnace is at its hottest; the interval in which the furnace is meant to fully melt glass.

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: March 28, 2022 (#282).

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

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How FOUND performs as a guess

FOUND is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 68.8% of games, misses completely in 31.2%, and leaves about 291 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,896 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

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__N_ F in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE RAILE SILER TALER STAGE ARSON
Words starting with F Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.24 Entropy (bits)
291 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 35% of evaluated openers
1.71 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FOUND 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#5,896 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FOUND ranks #5,896 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
853
4 guesses
1,234
5 guesses
200
6 guesses
11
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
NOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
31%
All gray
31%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S C O L D
B L I M P
A W A S H
F O U N D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FOUND in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.

Feedback distribution

87 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

736
187
161
145
137
111
76
70
64
58
51
41
38
36
33
32
26
26
25
24
24
23
14
11
10
10
8
8
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FOUND:

31% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
8% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
RAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.2% →
TARSE 6.43 bits
7.9% →
TARSE 5.21 bits
6.8% →
RAILE 5.22 bits
6.1% →
SILER 4.96 bits
5.8% →
TALER 4.66 bits
4.7% →
RAILE 5.45 bits
3.2% →
STAGE 4.74 bits
3.0% →
TARSE 4.99 bits
2.7% →
ARSON 4.66 bits
2.5% →
SLIER 4.99 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4O1U1N1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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