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TRUTH

Yes, TRUTH was the Wordle answer on October 9, 2023 (Wordle #842).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɹuːθ//tɹuθ/

Noun

True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.

“The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on.”

Noun

Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.

“There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice.”

Verb

To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.

Verb

To tell the truth.

Alternative forms: trewth

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: October 9, 2023 (#842).

See the full page for that puzzle: October 9, 2023 (#842).

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

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How TRUTH performs as a guess

TRUTH 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 71.4% of games, misses completely in 28.6%, and leaves about 280 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,400 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___H T in the 1st position and H in the 5th position T__T_ T in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _R__H R in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TRUTH 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.

4.23 Entropy (bits)
280 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 35% of evaluated openers
1.71 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TRUTH 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#8,400 Rank among openers
Opening with TRUTH left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,400 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
853
4 guesses
1,150
5 guesses
267
6 guesses
28
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
1 vowels
Common:
RTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
30%
All gray
29%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B E I G Y
T R U T H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TRUTH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TRUTH can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

679 answers
306 answers
173 answers
167 answers
122 answers
103 answers
66 answers
66 answers
63 answers
44 answers
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30 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
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11 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1U1T1H4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

ALONE SOLAR DIANE SLANE SLIME SAICE

Strategy after playing TRUTH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TRUTH:

29% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
13% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
7% chance
Suggested:
DIANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.6% →
ALONE 6.15 bits
12.9% →
SOLAR 4.99 bits
7.3% →
DIANE 5.16 bits
7.0% →
SLANE 5.69 bits
5.1% →
SLIME 4.72 bits
4.3% →
SAICE 5.44 bits
2.8% →
SLANE 4.47 bits
2.8% →
SATEM 4.73 bits
2.7% →
SURER 4.66 bits
1.9% →
SOARE 4.66 bits

Research on TRUTH

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

Optimal play

Opening with TRUTH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,578 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.94 guesses at best and is rank #5,051 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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 TROOTH.

Rhymes with YOUTH BOOTH TOOTH

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TRUTH is a kind of fact or actuality.

Synonyms accuracy

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TRUTH sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 112 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 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 28 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (2.7 of 5).

In a sentence

The truth is the truth.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
This is not the truth.
© tatoeba.org contributor maaster (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).