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PLACE

Yes, PLACE was the Wordle answer on February 8, 2024 (Wordle #964).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpleɪ̯s/[ˈpʰl̥eɪ̯s]/ˈpleːs/

Noun

An area; somewhere within an area.

Noun

A location or position in space.

“I'll check places I think she might be.”

Verb

To put (someone or something) in a specific location.

“He placed the glass on the table.”

Verb

To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ((often followed by an ordinal)).

“The Cowboys placed third in the league.”

Alternative forms: pleace

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 8, 2024 (#964).

See the full page for that puzzle: February 8, 2024 (#964).

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

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How PLACE performs as a guess

PLACE 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 85.6% of games, misses completely in 14.4%, and leaves about 116 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #516 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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__C_ P in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _L__E L in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PLACE 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.

5.37 Entropy (bits)
116 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.58 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PLACE 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#516 Rank among openers
Opening with PLACE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.58 average. It ranks #516 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
86
3 guesses
974
4 guesses
1,136
5 guesses
141
6 guesses
15
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:
AEL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
40%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PLACE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

PLACE can come back 129 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

341 answers
235 answers
171 answers
137 answers
92 answers
81 answers
76 answers
73 answers
69 answers
55 answers
44 answers
43 answers
43 answers
42 answers
41 answers
40 answers
34 answers
31 answers
30 answers
29 answers
27 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3L1A1C3E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SNORT TENOR RAINY GRISE SILLY ASTER

Strategy after playing PLACE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PLACE:

14% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
10% chance
Suggested:
TENOR
7% chance
Suggested:
RAINY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.4% →
SNORT 5.97 bits
9.9% →
TENOR 5.15 bits
7.2% →
RAINY 4.97 bits
5.8% →
GRISE 4.50 bits
3.9% →
SILLY 4.70 bits
3.4% →
ASTER 4.42 bits
3.2% →
STAND 4.34 bits
3.1% →
TALON 4.18 bits
2.9% →
LEVEL 3.96 bits
2.3% →
CRONY 4.73 bits

Research on PLACE

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

Optimal play

Opening with PLACE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #165 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.72 guesses at best and is rank #85 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.60, 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 PLAYS.

Rhymes with SPACE GRACE CHASE TRACE BRACE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PLACE is a kind of point or region.

Synonyms home put set POINT ORDER post

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PLACE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 513 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.6 of 5).

In a sentence

This is the place to be.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
That is the place for me!
© tatoeba.org contributor Hybrid (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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).