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SWEAT

Yes, SWEAT was the Wordle answer on February 20, 2023 (Wordle #611).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /swɛt/

Noun

Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.

Noun

The state of one who is sweating; diaphoresis.

“Just thinking about the interview tomorrow puts me into a nervous sweat.”

Verb

To emit sweat.

Verb

To cause to excrete moisture through skin.

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: February 20, 2023 (#611).

See the full page for that puzzle: February 20, 2023 (#611).

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

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How SWEAT performs as a guess

SWEAT 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 86.7% of games, misses completely in 13.3%, and leaves about 135 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,532 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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___T S in the 1st position and T in the 5th position S__A_ S in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _W__T W in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SWEAT 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.

5.09 Entropy (bits)
135 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 88% of evaluated openers
0.86 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SWEAT 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,532 Rank among openers
Opening with SWEAT 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 3.65 average. It ranks #3,532 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
892
4 guesses
1,195
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
15
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
2 vowels
Common:
AEST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
34%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S P L A T
S W E A T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SWEAT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SWEAT can come back 113 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

316 answers
310 answers
219 answers
153 answers
92 answers
76 answers
75 answers
53 answers
52 answers
51 answers
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32 answers
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27 answers
25 answers
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21 answers
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16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1W4E1A1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

COULD RIONE CAIRN GLARE NORTH TRITE

Strategy after playing SWEAT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SWEAT:

13% chance
Suggested:
COULD
13% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
9% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.3% →
COULD 5.60 bits
13.1% →
RIONE 5.27 bits
9.2% →
CAIRN 5.16 bits
6.4% →
GLARE 4.76 bits
3.9% →
NORTH 5.13 bits
3.2% →
TRITE 4.63 bits
3.2% →
SLUNK 4.26 bits
2.2% →
RIONE 4.45 bits
2.2% →
CORAL 4.36 bits
2.1% →
CATTY 3.88 bits

Research on SWEAT

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

Optimal play

Opening with SWEAT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,371 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.80 guesses at best and is rank #1,516 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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 SWEHT.

Rhymes with UPSET RESET CADET BESET UNMET

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SWEAT is a kind of secretion or agitation.

Synonyms effort stew fret

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SWEAT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 14 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 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 83 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.5 of 5).

In a sentence

We were in a sweat.
© tatoeba.org contributor Ergulis (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I'm working up a sweat.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (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).