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NIGHT

Yes, NIGHT was the Wordle answer on July 12, 2022 (Wordle #388).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈnɑjt//ˈnɑjʔ//ˈnaɪ̯t/

Noun

The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.

“Most animals are awake at day and sleep at night.”

Noun

The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.

Interjection

Ellipsis of good night.

“Night, y'all! Thanks for a great evening!”

Verb

To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.

Alternative forms: nite, neet

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: July 12, 2022 (#388).

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

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How NIGHT performs as a guess

NIGHT 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 73.1% of games, misses completely in 26.9%, and leaves about 245 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,293 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

N___T N in the 1st position and T in the 5th position N__H_ N in the 1st position and H in the 4th position _I__T I in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE SOARE CARSE SERAL ALURE SOLED
Words starting with N Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.34 Entropy (bits)
245 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 41% of evaluated openers
1.61 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NIGHT 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#5,293 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NIGHT ranks #5,293 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
904
4 guesses
1,176
5 guesses
210
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:
INT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
22%
All gray
27%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S H U N T
N I G H T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches NIGHT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

635
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169
150
111
91
78
66
61
44
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32
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NIGHT:

27% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
8% chance
Suggested:
SOARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.9% →
CARLE 6.21 bits
8.2% →
SOARE 5.65 bits
8.1% →
SOARE 5.38 bits
7.2% →
CARLE 5.37 bits
6.4% →
CARSE 5.79 bits
4.7% →
SERAL 5.25 bits
3.9% →
ALURE 5.31 bits
3.3% →
SOLED 4.45 bits
2.8% →
ROATE 4.78 bits
2.6% →
RAISE 4.35 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1I1G2H4T1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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