STYLE
Yes, STYLE was the Wordle answer on July 31, 2023 (Wordle #772).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /staɪl//staɪ.əl/
- Noun
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Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.
- Noun
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A particular manner of expression in writing or speech, especially one regarded as good.
- Verb
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To design, fashion, make, or arrange in a certain way or form (style).
- Verb
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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.
Etymology
The noun is derived from Middle English stile, stel, stele, stiel, stiele, stil, still, stille, styele, style, styill, styll, styyl (“writing tool, stylus; piece of written work; characteristic mode of expression, particularly one regarded as high quality; demeanour, manner, way of life; person's designation or title; stem of a plant; period of time”) (compare semantic development to по́черк (póčerk, “handwriting, style”)), from Old French style, estile, stil, stile (modern French style), or fro…
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it STYL.
Rhymes with WHILE SMILE AISLE GUILE STILE
Related meanings
Synonyms way TITLE fashion mode manner TREND
In a sentence
I don't like this style.
I don't like his style.
Use STYLE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% 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: July 31, 2023 (#772).
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See what the public sample says →STYLE in Connections
8 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1038
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STYLE appeared in FREE___ (purple group).
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· Puzzle #1032
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STYLE appeared in AESTHETIC (green group).
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· Puzzle #974
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STYLE appeared in METHOD (green group).
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· Puzzle #553
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STYLE appeared in POP SINGERS MINUS “S” (purple group).
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· Puzzle #360
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STYLE appeared in VARIETY (green group).
How STYLE performs as a guess
STYLE 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 88.0% of games, misses completely in 12.0%, and leaves about 113 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
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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.
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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
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:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for STYLE; 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 STYLE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to STYLE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing STYLE:
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.
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).
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).