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FREET

FREET is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /fɹiːt/

Noun

A superstitious notion or belief with respect to any action or event as a good or a bad omen; a superstition.

Noun

A superstitious rite, observance, wont, or practice.

Alternative forms: fret, freit

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

Etymology

From Middle English frete (“superstition”), from Old Norse frétt (“news, intelligence, inquiry, inquiry about the future”), from Proto-Germanic *frihtiz (“news, report, message, question, prophecy”), related to Icelandic frétt (“news”), Icelandic frétta (“to review”), Danish and Norwegian fritte (“to question, interrogate”), English frain (“to question”). More at frain.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it FREET.

Rhymes with SWEET TREAT ELITE SHEET FLEET

Use FREET in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

Open Solver with FREET Open Word Finder

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How FREET performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FREET as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 77.6% of games, misses completely in 22.4%, and leaves about 195 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,199 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

F___T F in the 1st position and T in the 5th position F__E_ F in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _R__T R in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FREET 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.

4.73 Entropy (bits)
195 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FREET 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#7,199 Rank among openers
Opening with FREET left 3 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 3.71 average. It ranks #7,199 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
819
4 guesses
1,186
5 guesses
256
6 guesses
13

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
40%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

FREET can come back 106 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

535 answers
246 answers
176 answers
157 answers
102 answers
98 answers
93 answers
90 answers
80 answers
71 answers
46 answers
42 answers
40 answers
34 answers
32 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
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18 answers
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14 answers
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13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4R1E1E1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SALON SLANE CAROL SATIN CANOE SAINE

Strategy after playing FREET

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FREET:

22% chance
Suggested:
SALON
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
7% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.4% →
SALON 5.82 bits
10.3% →
SLANE 5.26 bits
7.4% →
CAROL 5.21 bits
6.6% →
SATIN 4.96 bits
4.3% →
CANOE 3.89 bits
4.1% →
SAINE 4.60 bits
3.9% →
SOAPY 3.47 bits
3.8% →
SCRAE 4.37 bits
3.4% →
TASTE 4.71 bits
3.0% →
ALIEN 4.47 bits

Research on FREET

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

Optimal play

Opening with FREET, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #5,998 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.87 guesses at best and is rank #3,495 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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.

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