TODAY
Yes, TODAY was the Wordle answer on March 12, 2022 (Wordle #266).
As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /tʊˈdeɪ//təˈdeɪ/[tʰəˈɾeɪ]
- Adverb
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On the current day or date.
“I want this done today.”
- Adverb
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In the current era; nowadays; these days.
“In the 1500s, people had to do things by hand, but today we have electric can openers.”
- Noun
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The current day or date.
“Today is the day we'll fix this once and for all.”
- Noun
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The 24-hour period beginning at 5 or 6 a.m. or sunrise of the current day.
Alternative forms: to-day, to day, 2day
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
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: March 12, 2022 (#266).
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TODAY 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 83.8% of games, misses completely in 16.2%, and leaves about 154 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,412 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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First-turn measures
All four describe TODAY 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 TODAY 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 TODAY in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
TODAY can come back 99 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 TODAY; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing TODAY
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to TODAY.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing TODAY:
Research on TODAY
Game-tree analysis and word research for TODAY, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with TODAY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,475 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 TODAY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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
Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it TUHDAY.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, TODAY is a kind of present or day.
Synonyms now nowadays
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- TODAY sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 355 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 A1); among the first words English learners study.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.5 of 5).
In a sentence
Today it is on me.
You can have it today.
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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).