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PLATE

Yes, PLATE was the Wordle answer on April 20, 2023 (Wordle #670).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpleɪ̯t/[ˈpʰl̥eɪ̯t]/ˈplæ̝ɪ̯t/

Noun

A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.

“I filled my plate from the bountiful table.”

Noun

Such dishes collectively.

“A valuable collection of silver plate was donated to the museum.”

Verb

To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.

“This ring is plated with a thin layer of gold.”

Verb

To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.

“After preparation, the chef will plate the dish.”

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: April 20, 2023 (#670).

See the full page for that puzzle: April 20, 2023 (#670).

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How PLATE performs as a guess

PLATE 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 89.0% of games, misses completely in 11.0%, and leaves about 92 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #231 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 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__T_ P in the 1st position and T 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 PLATE.

First-turn measures

All four describe PLATE 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.

5.54 Entropy (bits)
92 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 99% of evaluated openers
0.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PLATE 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.

3.57 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#231 Rank among openers
Opening with PLATE 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 3.57 average. It ranks #231 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
95
3 guesses
983
4 guesses
1,125
5 guesses
134
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:
AELT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
40%
All gray
11%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PLATE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

PLATE can come back 133 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

262 answers
185 answers
151 answers
133 answers
132 answers
97 answers
88 answers
71 answers
66 answers
63 answers
61 answers
56 answers
47 answers
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40 answers
39 answers
38 answers
35 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
25 answers
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23 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
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17 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3L1A1T1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

CRONY SENOR MANOR HOIST SILLY SETER

Strategy after playing PLATE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PLATE:

11% chance
Suggested:
CRONY
8% chance
Suggested:
SENOR
6% chance
Suggested:
MANOR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.0% →
CRONY 5.64 bits
7.8% →
SENOR 4.97 bits
6.4% →
MANOR 5.26 bits
5.6% →
SENOR 4.71 bits
5.6% →
HOIST 5.33 bits
4.1% →
SILLY 4.79 bits
3.7% →
SETER 4.84 bits
3.0% →
SHARD 4.37 bits
2.8% →
SONAR 4.31 bits
2.7% →
AMBER 4.27 bits

Research on PLATE

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

Optimal play

Opening with PLATE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.58 guesses and ranks #35 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.70 guesses at best and is rank #15 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.57, at or below the proven-optimal 3.58, 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 PLAYT.

Rhymes with GREAT STATE EIGHT SLATE SKATE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PLATE is a kind of base or sheet.

Synonyms home SCALE SHELL

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PLATE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 35 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 A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 94 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.5 of 5).

In a sentence

This is not my plate.
© tatoeba.org contributor carlosalberto (CC BY 2.0 FR)
What is that on the plate?
© tatoeba.org contributor Babelball (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).