SMITE
Yes, SMITE was the Wordle answer on June 24, 2022 (Wordle #370).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /smaɪt/
- Verb
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To strike down or kill with godly force.
- Verb
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To injure with divine power.
- Noun
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A heavy strike with a weapon, tool, or the hand.
Alternative forms: smight
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English smiten, from Old English smītan (“to daub, smear, smudge; soil, defile, pollute”), from Proto-West Germanic *smītan, from Proto-Germanic *smītaną (“to sling; throw; smear”), from Proto-Indo-European *smeyd- (“to smear, whisk, strike, rub”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
In a sentence
The sword of heaven is not in haste to smite.
Smite his hard heart, and shake his reptile soul.
Use SMITE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 94.9% 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: June 24, 2022 (#370).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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SMITE appeared in BUGS PLUS STARTING LETTER (purple group).
How SMITE performs as a guess
SMITE 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 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 122 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,480 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe SMITE 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 SMITE 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 SMITE in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
SMITE can come back 120 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 SMITE; 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.
Try next
Strategy after playing SMITE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SMITE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing SMITE:
Research on SMITE
Game-tree analysis and word research for SMITE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with SMITE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #931 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 SMITE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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
- SMITE sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.0 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).