TRADE
Yes, TRADE was the Wordle answer on November 6, 2023 (Wordle #870).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /tɹeɪd/
- Noun
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The buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
- Noun
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A particular instance of buying or selling, or a series of related transactions executed as a single investment.
“I did no trades with them once the rumors started.”
- Verb
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To engage in trade.
“This company trades (in) precious metal.”
- Verb
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To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
“Apple is trading at $200.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English trade (“path, course of conduct”), introduced into English by Hanseatic merchants, from Middle Low German trade (“track, course”), from Old Saxon trada (“spoor, track”), from Proto-West Germanic *tradu, from Proto-Germanic *tradō (“track, way”), and cognate with Old English tredan (“to tread”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to tread, walk, step, run”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it TRAYD.
Rhymes with GRADE BLADE SHADE EVADE SPADE
Related meanings
Synonyms deal sell switch CRAFT swap merchandise
In a sentence
Do you want to trade?
I have something to trade.
Use TRADE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 96.4% 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: November 6, 2023 (#870).
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See what the public sample says →TRADE in Connections
7 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 #930
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TRADE appeared in VOCATION (blue group).
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· Puzzle #663
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TRADE appeared in COMPANIES WITH “E” REMOVED (purple group).
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· Puzzle #593
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TRADE appeared in VOCATION (blue group).
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· Puzzle #585
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TRADE appeared in BUYING AND SELLING (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #556
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TRADE appeared in INVESTMENT VERBS (blue group).
How TRADE performs as a guess
TRADE 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 88.2% of games, misses completely in 11.8%, and leaves about 85 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #123 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.56 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe TRADE 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 TRADE 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 TRADE in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
TRADE can come back 137 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 TRADE; 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.
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Strategy after playing TRADE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to TRADE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing TRADE:
Research on TRADE
Game-tree analysis and word research for TRADE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with TRADE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.58 guesses and ranks #43 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 TRADE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.56, at or below the proven-optimal 3.58, 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
- TRADE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 132 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: 48 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.5 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).