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PAINT

Yes, PAINT was the Wordle answer on June 21, 2024 (Wordle #1098).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /peɪnt//pɛjɳʈ//peɳʈ/

Noun

A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.

“fresh coat of paint”

Noun

A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.

Verb

To apply paint to.

“I painted the bathroom walls light blue, and I painted the ceiling white.”

Verb

To apply in the manner that paint is applied.

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 21, 2024 (#1098).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 21, 2024 (#1098).

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

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How PAINT performs as a guess

PAINT 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 83.3% of games, misses completely in 16.7%, and leaves about 132 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #154 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.56 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.

P___T P in the 1st position and T in the 5th position P__N_ P in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _A__T A in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PAINT 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.

5.19 Entropy (bits)
132 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 92% of evaluated openers
0.75 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PAINT 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.

3.56 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#154 Rank among openers
Opening with PAINT left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.56 average. It ranks #154 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
1,058
4 guesses
1,059
5 guesses
152
6 guesses
11
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
2 vowels
Common:
AINT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
40%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C L I N T
S P O O F
P A I N T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PAINT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

PAINT can come back 119 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

397 answers
247 answers
124 answers
116 answers
110 answers
107 answers
79 answers
65 answers
61 answers
59 answers
59 answers
49 answers
46 answers
46 answers
40 answers
40 answers
38 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
32 answers
28 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1I1N1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SOLER BLARE SHOER SLYER SOLED DORSE

Strategy after playing PAINT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PAINT:

17% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
10% chance
Suggested:
BLARE
5% chance
Suggested:
SHOER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.7% →
SOLER 5.98 bits
10.4% →
BLARE 5.34 bits
5.2% →
SHOER 5.48 bits
4.9% →
SLYER 4.87 bits
4.6% →
SOLED 5.08 bits
4.5% →
DORSE 5.00 bits
3.3% →
CRUSE 4.72 bits
2.7% →
SLATE 4.84 bits
2.6% →
SOLER 5.13 bits
2.5% →
SOREL 4.88 bits

Research on PAINT

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

Optimal play

Opening with PAINT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.61 guesses and ranks #326 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with PAINT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.56, at or below the proven-optimal 3.61, 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 PAYNT.

Rhymes with SAINT FAINT TAINT FEINT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PAINT is a kind of color or space.

Synonyms key ROUGE BLUSH pigment

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PAINT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 33 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 89 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.3 of 5).

In a sentence

I have to paint it.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I want to paint you.
© tatoeba.org contributor Lumi_alt (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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).