LIMIT
Yes, LIMIT was the Wordle answer on November 7, 2023 (Wordle #871).
As an opener, it rules out about 87.9% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪm.ɪt//ˈlɪm.ɪʈ//lɪmʈ/
- Noun
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A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go or proceed.
“There are several existing limits to executive power.”
- Noun
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A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
“The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.”
- Adjective
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Being a fixed limit game.
- Verb
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To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
“We need to limit the power of the executive.”
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
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: November 7, 2023 (#871).
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See what the public sample says →How LIMIT performs as a guess
LIMIT 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 71.3% of games, misses completely in 28.7%, and leaves about 286 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,062 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe LIMIT 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How LIMIT 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches LIMIT in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
LIMIT can come back 76 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for LIMIT; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing LIMIT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to LIMIT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing LIMIT:
Research on LIMIT
Game-tree analysis and word research for LIMIT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with LIMIT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,782 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.91 guesses at best and is rank #4,310 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it LIHMUHT.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, LIMIT is a kind of extent or end.
Synonyms set fix determine BOUND define boundary
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- LIMIT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 50 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 25 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
In a sentence
Was there a time limit?
There is a limit to everything.
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).