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PHASE

Yes, PHASE was the Wordle answer on June 3, 2022 (Wordle #349).

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /feɪz/

Noun

A distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.

Noun

That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.

Verb

To begin—if construed with "in"—or to discontinue—if construed with out—(doing) something over a period of time (i.e. in phases).

“The use of the obsolete machines was gradually phased out as the new models were phased in.”

Verb

To determine haplotypes in (data) when genotypes are known.

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 3, 2022 (#349).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 3, 2022 (#349).

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

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How PHASE performs as a guess

PHASE 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 86.1% of games, misses completely in 13.9%, and leaves about 133 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,660 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___E P in the 1st position and E in the 5th position P__S_ P in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _H__E H in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PHASE 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)
133 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.76 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PHASE 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#2,660 Rank among openers
Opening with PHASE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,660 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
938
4 guesses
1,121
5 guesses
202
6 guesses
13
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
39%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
P H A S E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PHASE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

PHASE can come back 125 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

329 answers
271 answers
245 answers
131 answers
110 answers
104 answers
75 answers
73 answers
50 answers
45 answers
43 answers
42 answers
34 answers
34 answers
34 answers
33 answers
30 answers
27 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3H4A1S1E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

DROIT DETER TALON GOIER ALTER SNOUT

Strategy after playing PHASE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PHASE:

14% chance
Suggested:
DROIT
11% chance
Suggested:
DETER
10% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.9% →
DROIT 5.61 bits
11.4% →
DETER 5.41 bits
10.3% →
TALON 5.26 bits
5.5% →
GOIER 4.37 bits
4.6% →
ALTER 4.69 bits
4.4% →
SNOUT 4.92 bits
3.2% →
NORTH 4.67 bits
3.1% →
CRINE 3.99 bits
2.1% →
ANGLE 3.98 bits
1.9% →
STEER 4.48 bits

Research on PHASE

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

Optimal play

Opening with PHASE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,895 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 PHASE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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 FAYZ.

Rhymes with PLAYS RAISE STAYS BLAZE CRAZE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PHASE is a kind of period or state.

Synonyms form STAGE

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PHASE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 44 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 B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 33 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.6 of 5).

In a sentence

The first phase is over.
© tatoeba.org contributor Eccles17 (CC BY 2.0 FR)
It's probably just a phase.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (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).