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FROTH

Yes, FROTH was the Wordle answer on June 4, 2022 (Wordle #350).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɒθ/[ˈfɹʷɒθ]/ˈfɹɔθ/

Noun

Foam.

“Froth is a very important feature of many types of coffee.”

Noun

Unimportant or insubstantial talk, events, or actions; drivel.

“Thousands of African children die each day: why do the newspapers continue to discuss unnecessary showbiz froth?”

Verb

To create froth in (a liquid).

“I like to froth my coffee for ten seconds exactly.”

Verb

(of a liquid) To bubble.

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: June 4, 2022 (#350).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 4, 2022 (#350).

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

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How FROTH performs as a guess

FROTH 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 77.3% of games, misses completely in 22.7%, and leaves about 198 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,020 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___H F in the 1st position and H in the 5th position F__T_ F in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _R__H R in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FROTH 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.

4.67 Entropy (bits)
198 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 63% of evaluated openers
1.28 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FROTH 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#3,020 Rank among openers
Opening with FROTH solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,020 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
942
4 guesses
1,166
5 guesses
178
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
1 vowels
Common:
ORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
32%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B R O T H
F R O T H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FROTH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

FROTH can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

540 answers
236 answers
186 answers
170 answers
115 answers
86 answers
85 answers
78 answers
66 answers
62 answers
56 answers
45 answers
43 answers
42 answers
41 answers
34 answers
32 answers
23 answers
23 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4R1O1T1H4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

AISLE LAREE SLANE ANILE CADIE SORER

Strategy after playing FROTH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FROTH:

23% chance
Suggested:
AISLE
10% chance
Suggested:
LAREE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.7% →
AISLE 6.20 bits
9.9% →
LAREE 5.08 bits
7.8% →
SLANE 5.77 bits
7.2% →
ANILE 5.00 bits
4.8% →
CADIE 4.89 bits
3.6% →
SORER 4.30 bits
3.6% →
SAICE 5.32 bits
3.3% →
SLANE 4.78 bits
2.8% →
SATEM 4.59 bits
2.6% →
PAISE 4.74 bits

Research on FROTH

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

Optimal play

Opening with FROTH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,893 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,675 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 FRAWTH.

Rhymes with CLOTH BROTH

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FROTH is a kind of bubble or breathe.

Synonyms foam sparkle

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FROTH sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 77 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.2 of 5).

In a sentence

A drop, falling into water, makes a bubble; many bubbles make froth.
© tatoeba.org contributor jimkillock (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Ziri skimmed the froth off.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).