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POINT

Yes, POINT was the Wordle answer on January 19, 2022 (Wordle #214).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pɔɪnt/

Noun

A small dot or mark.

“The stars showed as tiny points of yellow light.”

Noun

A small discrete division or individual feature of something.

“The Congress debated the finer points of the bill.”

Interjection

point taken; understood; got it

Verb

To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.

“It's rude to point at other people.”

Alternative forms: p'int

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: January 19, 2022 (#214).

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

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How POINT performs as a guess

POINT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 79.4% of games, misses completely in 20.6%, and leaves about 157 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #322 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

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 _O__T O in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE TARTE MARLE SIDLE LAREE SERAL
Words starting with P Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.02 Entropy (bits)
157 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How POINT 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
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#322 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, POINT ranks #322 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
74
3 guesses
1,027
4 guesses
1,086
5 guesses
152
6 guesses
13
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
INOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
39%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C U M I N
J O I N T
P O I N T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches POINT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

117 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

486
155
139
133
123
111
95
78
77
63
53
44
43
43
37
36
33
29
29
28
25
24
21
20
20
16
16
15
14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POINT:

21% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
7% chance
Suggested:
TARTE
6% chance
Suggested:
CARLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.6% →
CARLE 6.17 bits
6.6% →
TARTE 5.64 bits
5.9% →
CARLE 5.22 bits
5.6% →
MARLE 4.75 bits
5.2% →
SIDLE 5.06 bits
4.7% →
LAREE 5.21 bits
4.0% →
CARLE 5.07 bits
3.3% →
SERAL 5.13 bits
3.3% →
SHALE 5.23 bits
2.7% →
CANER 4.39 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1I1N1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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