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MATCH

Yes, MATCH was the Wordle answer on February 20, 2024 (Wordle #976).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /mæt͡ʃ/

Noun

A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.

“My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.”

Noun

Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.

Verb

To agree; to be equal; to correspond.

“Their interests didn't match, so it took a long time to agree what to do together.”

Verb

To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.

“His interests didn't match her interests.”

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 20, 2024 (#976).

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

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How MATCH performs as a guess

MATCH 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 74.7% of games, misses completely in 25.3%, and leaves about 226 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,023 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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.

M___H M in the 1st position and H in the 5th position M__C_ M in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _A__H A in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

RIONE LEARN SIREN SOREL SLART CRONE
Words starting with M Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.58 Entropy (bits)
226 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 57% of evaluated openers
1.37 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MATCH 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
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#3,023 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MATCH ranks #3,023 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
941
4 guesses
1,160
5 guesses
181
6 guesses
13
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:
AT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
28%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C L I N T
H U M P H
M A T C H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MATCH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

101 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

597
250
213
129
114
100
70
68
46
45
42
40
37
36
34
33
27
26
26
26
19
18
18
17
16
16
13
13
12
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MATCH:

25% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
11% chance
Suggested:
LEARN
9% chance
Suggested:
SIREN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.3% →
RIONE 6.06 bits
10.6% →
LEARN 5.40 bits
9.0% →
SIREN 5.64 bits
5.5% →
SOREL 4.86 bits
4.8% →
SLART 4.93 bits
4.2% →
CRONE 5.33 bits
3.0% →
SIREN 5.29 bits
2.9% →
PROLE 5.00 bits
2.0% →
ALOSE 4.49 bits
1.9% →
SERAL 4.52 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1T1C3H4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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