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FRIED

Yes, FRIED was the Wordle answer on February 10, 2024 (Wordle #966).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /fɹaɪd/

Verb

simple past and past participle of fry

Adjective

Cooked by frying.

Adjective

Fried with the yolk unbroken.

“He always ate his eggs fried, never scrambled.”

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 10, 2024 (#966).

See the full page for that puzzle: February 10, 2024 (#966).

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

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How FRIED performs as a guess

FRIED 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 81.9% of games, misses completely in 18.1%, and leaves about 161 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,853 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___D F in the 1st position and D in the 5th position F__E_ F in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _R__D R in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FRIED 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.

4.92 Entropy (bits)
161 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 79% of evaluated openers
1.03 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FRIED 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#1,853 Rank among openers
Opening with FRIED left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #1,853 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
79
3 guesses
938
4 guesses
1,149
5 guesses
173
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:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
39%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E D
A P A C E
D R I E D
F R I E D

One example route used by the solver.

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

Feedback distribution

FRIED can come back 117 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

429 answers
291 answers
160 answers
145 answers
112 answers
108 answers
90 answers
88 answers
78 answers
55 answers
53 answers
49 answers
48 answers
44 answers
36 answers
30 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4R1I1E1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SAULT SLATE COAST SATIN TEASE ROAST

Strategy after playing FRIED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FRIED:

18% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
12% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.1% →
SAULT 5.90 bits
12.3% →
SLATE 5.82 bits
6.7% →
COAST 5.34 bits
6.1% →
SATIN 5.15 bits
4.7% →
TEASE 4.66 bits
4.5% →
ROAST 3.62 bits
3.8% →
SLANT 4.55 bits
3.7% →
SLANT 5.17 bits
3.3% →
COAST 4.60 bits
2.3% →
DEALT 4.42 bits

Research on FRIED

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

Optimal play

Opening with FRIED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,731 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 FRIED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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 FRYD.

Rhymes with TRIED GUIDE ASIDE PRIDE SLIDE

Related meanings

Synonyms cooked

Opposites raw

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FRIED sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 11 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.

In a sentence

I don't like fried food.
© tatoeba.org contributor fanty (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I don't like fried fish.
© tatoeba.org contributor erikspen (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.