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TRADE

Yes, TRADE was the Wordle answer on November 6, 2023 (Wordle #870).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɹeɪd/

Noun

The buying and selling of goods and services on a market.

Noun

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

To engage in trade.

“This company trades (in) precious metal.”

Verb

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.

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: November 6, 2023 (#870).

See the full page for that puzzle: November 6, 2023 (#870).

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

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How TRADE performs as a guess

TRADE 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 88.2% of games, misses completely in 11.8%, and leaves about 84 possible answers on average.

In the current bounded six-turn policy, it ranks #58 of 182 evaluated openers; exact misses rank first, then average guesses among wins.

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

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__D_ T in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

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.

5.67 Entropy (bits)
84 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.5% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.27 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

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.

3.56 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#123 Rank among openers
Opening with TRADE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.56 average. It ranks #123 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
103
3 guesses
1,003
4 guesses
1,082
5 guesses
152
6 guesses
10
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:
AERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
40%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
T R A C E
T R A D E

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:

280 answers
139 answers
121 answers
112 answers
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109 answers
75 answers
74 answers
67 answers
63 answers
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51 answers
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43 answers
37 answers
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32 answers
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20 answers
20 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1A1D2E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

SOILY SONLY HOIST SEVEN SLACK CURIO

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:

12% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
6% chance
Suggested:
SONLY
5% chance
Suggested:
HOIST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.8% →
SOILY 5.73 bits
5.9% →
SONLY 5.17 bits
5.1% →
HOIST 5.19 bits
4.7% →
SOILY 4.74 bits
4.7% →
SOILY 3.91 bits
4.6% →
SEVEN 4.61 bits
3.2% →
SLACK 4.60 bits
3.1% →
CURIO 4.86 bits
2.8% →
CAROL 4.61 bits
2.7% →
SAUCY 3.99 bits

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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it TRAYD.

Rhymes with GRADE BLADE SHADE EVADE SPADE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TRADE is a kind of commerce or business.

Synonyms deal sell switch CRAFT swap merchandise

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).

In a sentence

Do you want to trade?
© tatoeba.org contributor ddnktr (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I have something to trade.
© 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).