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TASTE

Yes, TASTE was the Wordle answer on June 22, 2023 (Wordle #733).

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /teɪst/

Noun

One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.

“He had a strange taste in his mouth.”

Noun

The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.

“His taste was impaired by an illness.”

Verb

To sample the flavor of something orally.

Verb

To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.

“The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.”

Alternative forms: tast

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: June 22, 2023 (#733).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 22, 2023 (#733).

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

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How TASTE performs as a guess

TASTE 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 85.0% of games, misses completely in 15.0%, and leaves about 135 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,414 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.

T___E T in the 1st position and E in the 5th position T__T_ T in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TASTE 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.

4.99 Entropy (bits)
135 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.96 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TASTE 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#7,414 Rank among openers
Opening with TASTE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,414 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
786
4 guesses
1,240
5 guesses
231
6 guesses
16
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
39%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B U T C H
P A T T E
T A S T E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TASTE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TASTE can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

357 answers
251 answers
184 answers
144 answers
120 answers
109 answers
83 answers
72 answers
72 answers
67 answers
64 answers
62 answers
54 answers
50 answers
39 answers
35 answers
35 answers
32 answers
31 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1S1T1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Try next

COULD OLDER ACORN GOIER SLUNK RANDY

Strategy after playing TASTE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TASTE:

15% chance
Suggested:
COULD
11% chance
Suggested:
OLDER
8% chance
Suggested:
ACORN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.0% →
COULD 5.57 bits
10.6% →
OLDER 5.02 bits
7.8% →
ACORN 4.95 bits
6.1% →
GOIER 4.43 bits
5.1% →
SLUNK 4.76 bits
4.6% →
RANDY 4.05 bits
3.5% →
RENAL 4.83 bits
3.0% →
CLASH 4.27 bits
3.0% →
INGOT 4.72 bits
2.8% →
PRONE 4.10 bits

Research on TASTE

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

Optimal play

Opening with TASTE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,520 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 TASTE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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 TAYST.

Rhymes with BASED WASTE FACED WAIST PASTE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TASTE is a kind of sensation or liking.

Synonyms try sample appreciation preference tasting SMACK

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TASTE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 54 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 35 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with taste (4.6 of 5).

In a sentence

I don't like the taste.
© tatoeba.org contributor Hybrid (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Would you like a taste?
© 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).