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LUCKY

Yes, LUCKY was the Wordle answer on September 9, 2023 (Wordle #812).

As an opener, it rules out about 85.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈlʌki//ˈlʊki//ˈlʌke/

Adjective

Favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune.

“a lucky adventurer”

Adjective

Producing, or resulting in, good fortune

“a lucky mistake”

Noun

seven

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 9, 2023 (#812).

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

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How LUCKY performs as a guess

LUCKY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 67.5% of games, misses completely in 32.5%, and leaves about 340 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,355 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

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

L___Y L in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position L__K_ L in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE SOARE SARED TRONE TARGE STRAE
Words starting with L Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.89 Entropy (bits)
340 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 18% of evaluated openers
2.06 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LUCKY 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,355 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LUCKY ranks #11,355 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
741
4 guesses
1,248
5 guesses
293
6 guesses
25
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
27%
All gray
32%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
B A D L Y
L U C K Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches LUCKY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

77 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

767
302
192
189
151
72
58
57
48
48
46
34
33
28
27
23
21
21
17
16
16
16
12
10
10
8
7
7
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LUCKY:

33% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
13% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
8% chance
Suggested:
TIARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.5% →
TIARE 6.32 bits
12.8% →
SOARE 5.27 bits
8.1% →
TIARE 5.68 bits
8.0% →
SARED 4.93 bits
6.4% →
TRONE 5.44 bits
3.1% →
TARGE 4.85 bits
2.5% →
STRAE 5.00 bits
2.4% →
SALLE 4.05 bits
2.0% →
SAINE 4.49 bits
2.0% →
ROATE 4.62 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1U1C3K5Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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