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FRAME

Yes, FRAME was the Wordle answer on February 8, 2022 (Wordle #234).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfɹeɪ̯m/

Verb

To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.

Verb

To construct by fitting together or uniting various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.

Noun

The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.

“Now that the frame is complete, we can start on the walls.”

Noun

Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.

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: February 8, 2022 (#234).

See the full page for that puzzle: February 8, 2022 (#234).

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

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How FRAME performs as a guess

FRAME 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 84.4% of games, misses completely in 15.6%, and leaves about 131 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,064 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__M_ F in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FRAME 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.

5.06 Entropy (bits)
131 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 86% of evaluated openers
0.89 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FRAME 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
#5,064 Rank among openers
Opening with FRAME 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 #5,064 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
79
3 guesses
863
4 guesses
1,171
5 guesses
226
6 guesses
12
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
40%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C R I S P
B A D G E
F R A M E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FRAME in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

FRAME can come back 108 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

370 answers
202 answers
185 answers
147 answers
134 answers
105 answers
81 answers
79 answers
71 answers
71 answers
59 answers
54 answers
52 answers
49 answers
44 answers
37 answers
34 answers
34 answers
31 answers
31 answers
25 answers
24 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4R1A1M3E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SOILY TALON INLET ROUET COURT SLANT

Strategy after playing FRAME

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FRAME:

16% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
9% chance
Suggested:
TALON
8% chance
Suggested:
INLET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.6% →
SOILY 5.72 bits
8.5% →
TALON 5.23 bits
7.8% →
INLET 4.96 bits
6.2% →
SOILY 4.71 bits
5.6% →
ROUET 3.96 bits
4.4% →
COURT 5.03 bits
3.4% →
SLANT 4.80 bits
3.3% →
RATIO 4.34 bits
3.0% →
STEAL 4.43 bits
3.0% →
PRINT 3.99 bits

Research on FRAME

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

Optimal play

Opening with FRAME, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,696 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 FRAME can 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it FRAYM.

Rhymes with CLAIM BLAME SHAME FLAME BRAME

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FRAME is a kind of framework or picture.

Synonyms put form figure BUILD cast SHAPE

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FRAME sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 38 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 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 78 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.2 of 5).

In a sentence

Who would want to frame you?
© tatoeba.org contributor megamanenm (CC BY 2.0 FR)
He has a small frame.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (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).