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FRONT

Yes, FRONT was the Wordle answer on September 6, 2021 (Wordle #79).

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /fɹʌnt//fɹɐnt//fɹʊnt/

Noun

The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.

Noun

The side of a building with the main entrance.

Adjective

Located at or near the front.

“The front runner was thirty meters ahead of her nearest competitor.”

Adjective

Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).

“The English word dress has a front vowel in most dialects.”

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: September 6, 2021 (#79).

See the full page for that puzzle: September 6, 2021 (#79).

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

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How FRONT performs as a guess

FRONT 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 80.5% of games, misses completely in 19.5%, and leaves about 161 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #805 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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___T F in the 1st position and T in the 5th position F__N_ F in the 1st position and N 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 FRONT.

First-turn measures

All four describe FRONT 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.

4.94 Entropy (bits)
161 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 80% of evaluated openers
1.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FRONT 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#805 Rank among openers
Opening with FRONT left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #805 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
996
4 guesses
1,134
5 guesses
153
6 guesses
7
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
1 vowels
Common:
NORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
36%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S N O U T
F R O N T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FRONT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

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

463 answers
236 answers
157 answers
145 answers
118 answers
93 answers
83 answers
83 answers
74 answers
59 answers
59 answers
57 answers
41 answers
35 answers
32 answers
31 answers
30 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
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22 answers
18 answers
17 answers
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15 answers
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15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4R1O1N1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SPALE SALEP TASTE CADIE COLEY SPACE

Strategy after playing FRONT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FRONT:

20% chance
Suggested:
SPALE
10% chance
Suggested:
SALEP
7% chance
Suggested:
TASTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.5% →
SPALE 6.21 bits
9.9% →
SALEP 5.22 bits
6.6% →
TASTE 5.53 bits
6.1% →
CADIE 5.27 bits
5.0% →
COLEY 4.85 bits
3.9% →
SPACE 5.01 bits
3.5% →
SCALE 5.07 bits
3.5% →
CARER 4.43 bits
3.1% →
SLICE 4.73 bits
2.5% →
SKIEY 4.36 bits

Research on FRONT

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

Optimal play

Opening with FRONT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,039 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 FRONT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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 FRUHNT.

Rhymes with BLUNT STUNT GRUNT BRUNT SHUNT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FRONT is a kind of side or line.

Synonyms look face movement presence breast advanced

Opposites back rear

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FRONT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 191 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 A1); among the first words English learners study.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.6 of 5).

In a sentence

He is in front of me.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)
What is in front of you?
© tatoeba.org contributor serefsaid (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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).