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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier for first-turn info

STYLE

Yes, STYLE was the Wordle answer on July 31, 2023 (Wordle #772).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /staɪl//staɪ.əl/

Noun

Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.

Noun

A particular manner of expression in writing or speech, especially one regarded as good.

Verb

To design, fashion, make, or arrange in a certain way or form (style).

Verb

To call or give a name or title to.

“The pope is styled His or Your Holiness.”

Alternative forms: stile, stylee

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: July 31, 2023 (#772).

See the full page for that puzzle: July 31, 2023 (#772).

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

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How STYLE performs as a guess

STYLE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 88.0% of games, misses completely in 12.0%, and leaves about 112 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,984 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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.

S___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__L_ S in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _T__E T in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe STYLE 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.

5.12 Entropy (bits)
112 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 89% of evaluated openers
0.82 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How STYLE 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,984 Rank among openers
Opening with STYLE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #4,984 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
879
4 guesses
1,188
5 guesses
201
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ELST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
36%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S H I L Y
S T Y L E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches STYLE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

STYLE can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

285 answers
191 answers
174 answers
166 answers
141 answers
129 answers
104 answers
101 answers
73 answers
50 answers
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28 answers
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23 answers
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21 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1Y4L1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

CAIRN AIDER TRAIT GRICE CAROL DRONE

Strategy after playing STYLE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STYLE:

12% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
8% chance
Suggested:
AIDER
7% chance
Suggested:
TRAIT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.0% →
CAIRN 6.10 bits
8.0% →
AIDER 4.95 bits
7.3% →
TRAIT 5.36 bits
7.0% →
GRICE 4.44 bits
5.9% →
CAROL 4.93 bits
5.4% →
DRONE 4.31 bits
4.4% →
CARET 4.64 bits
4.3% →
RENAL 4.61 bits
3.1% →
CRANE 4.13 bits
2.1% →
CHAOS 4.57 bits

Research on STYLE

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

Optimal play

Opening with STYLE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,690 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 STYLE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it STYL.

Rhymes with WHILE SMILE AISLE GUILE STILE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, STYLE is a kind of property or communication.

Synonyms way TITLE fashion mode manner TREND

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
STYLE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 129 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 A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 54 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.1 of 5).

In a sentence

I don't like this style.
© tatoeba.org contributor Eccles17 (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I don't like his style.
© tatoeba.org contributor rul (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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).