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TREND

Yes, TREND was the Wordle answer on March 4, 2023 (Wordle #623).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɹɛnd/

Noun

An inclination in a particular direction.

“the trend of a coastline”

Noun

A tendency.

“There is a trend, these days, for people in films not to smoke.”

Verb

To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend.

“The shore of the sea trends to the southwest.”

Verb

To cause to turn; to bend.

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: March 4, 2023 (#623).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 4, 2023 (#623).

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

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How TREND performs as a guess

TREND 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 85.8% of games, misses completely in 14.2%, and leaves about 117 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #824 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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___D T in the 1st position and D in the 5th position T__N_ T in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _R__D R in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TREND 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.

5.25 Entropy (bits)
117 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.69 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TREND 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#824 Rank among openers
Opening with TREND 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 3.59 average. It ranks #824 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
74
3 guesses
989
4 guesses
1,121
5 guesses
151
6 guesses
17
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
1 vowels
Common:
ENRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
30%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
E N T E R
S T E R N
T R E N D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TREND in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TREND can come back 120 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

336 answers
201 answers
173 answers
152 answers
129 answers
103 answers
93 answers
83 answers
62 answers
55 answers
52 answers
51 answers
45 answers
40 answers
38 answers
34 answers
33 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1E1N1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

SOILY SABLE SOLAR HOIST CAROL SONIC

Strategy after playing TREND

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TREND:

14% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
8% chance
Suggested:
SABLE
7% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.2% →
SOILY 5.67 bits
8.5% →
SABLE 5.34 bits
7.3% →
SOLAR 4.44 bits
6.4% →
HOIST 5.30 bits
5.4% →
CAROL 5.29 bits
4.3% →
SONIC 4.89 bits
3.9% →
SHALT 4.89 bits
3.5% →
AINEE 4.56 bits
2.6% →
COALY 4.17 bits
2.3% →
SAUCY 4.24 bits

Research on TREND

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

Optimal play

Opening with TREND, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.61 guesses and ranks #348 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 TREND can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.61, 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 TREHND.

Rhymes with SPEND BLEND AMEND

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TREND is a kind of way or direction.

Synonyms course cut STYLE movement CURVE SHEER

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TREND sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 32 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 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 37 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.2 of 5).

In a sentence

This is the new trend.
© tatoeba.org contributor Atversch (CC BY 2.0 FR)
This is a new trend.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (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).