PSYCH
Yes, PSYCH was the Wordle answer on October 14, 2026 (Wordle #1943).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /saɪk/
- Noun
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Clipping of psychiatry.
- Noun
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Clipping of psychology.
“I took psych in my freshman year at college.”
- Verb
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Clipping of psychoanalyse (“to treat (someone) using psychoanalysis”); also, to carry out psychological testing on (someone).
- Verb
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Chiefly followed by out: to analyse (something), especially psychologically; also (generally), to work out (something).
Alternative forms: psyche, sike, syke
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
The verb is a clipping of psychologize. The interjection is probably derived from the verb.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it SYK.
In a sentence
Psych yourself up for it.
I learned about this in psych.
Use PSYCH in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 85.1% 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: October 14, 2026 (#1943).
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See what the public sample says →PSYCH 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 #730
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PSYCH appeared in '80S SLANG (blue group).
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· Puzzle #464
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PSYCH appeared in GET EXCITED, WITH "UP" (yellow group).
How PSYCH performs as a guess
PSYCH 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 65.7% of games, misses completely in 34.3%, and leaves about 355 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,454 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe PSYCH 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 PSYCH 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
Feedback distribution
PSYCH can come back 73 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 PSYCH; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing PSYCH
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to PSYCH.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing PSYCH:
Research on PSYCH
Game-tree analysis and word research for PSYCH, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with PSYCH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,423 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.90 guesses at best and is rank #4,285 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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
- PSYCH sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).