PLAZA
Yes, PLAZA was the Wordle answer on April 30, 2023 (Wordle #680).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈplæzə//ˈplɑːzə/
- Noun
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A town's public square.
“Tourists gathered in the central plaza.”
- Noun
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An open area used for gathering in a city, often having small trees and sitting benches.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish plaza (“town-square or central place of gathering”), from Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), clipping of πλατεῖα ὁδός (plateîa hodós, “broad way”). Doublet of piatza, piazza, and place.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it PLAHZUH.
Related meanings
Synonyms PLACE center centre mall piazza
In a sentence
I went to the plaza last night.
They're building a new plaza.
Use PLAZA in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 82.5% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: April 30, 2023 (#680).
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See what the public sample says →PLAZA in Connections
2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #534
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PLAZA appeared in FEATURED IN “ELOISE” (purple group).
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· Puzzle #403
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PLAZA appeared in OPEN SPACE (yellow group).
How PLAZA performs as a guess
PLAZA is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 63.1% of games, misses completely in 36.9%, and leaves about 417 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,407 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe PLAZA 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How PLAZA 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches PLAZA in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
PLAZA can come back 65 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for PLAZA; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing PLAZA
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to PLAZA.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing PLAZA:
Research on PLAZA
Game-tree analysis and word research for PLAZA, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with PLAZA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.88 guesses and ranks #13,341 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 4.00 guesses at best and is rank #6,271 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.86, at or below the proven-optimal 3.88, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- PLAZA sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 8 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.4 of 5).
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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).