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POINT

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

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.

Etymology

From Middle English poynt, from Old French point m (“dot; minute amount”), from Latin pūnctum (“a hole punched in; a point, puncture”), substantive use of pūnctus m, perfect passive participle of pungō (“to prick, punch”); alternatively, from Old French pointe f (“sharp tip”), from Latin pūncta f (past participle), all from Proto-Italic *pungō (“to sting, prick”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it POYNT.

Rhymes with JOINT

Related meanings

Synonyms PLACE show stop head LEVEL period

In a sentence

Do you have a point?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
You do have a point.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use POINT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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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).

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POINT in Connections

14 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How POINT performs as a guess

POINT 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 79.5% of games, misses completely in 20.5%, and leaves about 158 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #322 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___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 PO_NT P in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, N in the 4th position, and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe POINT 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.

5.03 Entropy (bits)
158 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#322 Rank among openers
Opening with POINT 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 #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

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
INOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
39%
All gray
20%

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

POINT can come back 117 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

488 answers
157 answers
141 answers
134 answers
124 answers
112 answers
97 answers
78 answers
78 answers
64 answers
53 answers
47 answers
44 answers
43 answers
39 answers
36 answers
33 answers
29 answers
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28 answers
25 answers
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21 answers
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17 answers
16 answers
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15 answers
14 answers

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.

Try next

CARLE TARTE MARLE SIDLE LAREE SERAL

Strategy after playing POINT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POINT:

20% 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.

20.5% →
CARLE 6.18 bits
6.6% →
TARTE 5.66 bits
5.9% →
CARLE 5.21 bits
5.6% →
MARLE 4.75 bits
5.2% →
SIDLE 5.07 bits
4.7% →
LAREE 5.21 bits
4.1% →
CARLE 5.05 bits
3.3% →
SERAL 5.13 bits
3.3% →
SHALE 5.22 bits
2.7% →
CANER 4.37 bits

Research on POINT

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

Optimal play

Opening with POINT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #603 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 POINT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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
POINT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 347 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.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 58 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.8 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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).