UTTER
Yes, UTTER was the Wordle answer on May 24, 2023 (Wordle #704).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈʌtə/[ˈɐtə]/ˈʌtəɹ/
- Adjective
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To the furthest or most extreme extent; absolute, complete, total, unconditional.
“utter bliss utter darkness utter ruin”
- Adjective
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Of decisions, replies, etc.: made in an unconditional or unqualified manner; decisive, definite.
- Verb
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Senses relating to expressing sounds, etc., or disclosing something
“Don’t you utter another word!”
- Verb
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Senses relating to issuing something.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English outren, utteren (“to display for sale; to market; to sell; to say, speak; to put into words, express, tell; to make known, reveal”), partly: * from outre, utter (adjective, adverb) (see etymology 1 and etymology 3) + -en (suffix forming the infinitives of verbs); and * from Middle Dutch uteren (“to announce, make known”) (modern Dutch uiteren); or from Middle Low German üteren, ütern (“to demonstrate, show; to speak; to sell; etc.”) (modern Low German ütern), fr…
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it UHTUR.
Related meanings
Synonyms talk perfect complete SPEAK MOUTH express
Opposites incomplete
In a sentence
I didn't utter a word.
That was an utter failure.
Use UTTER in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% 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: May 24, 2023 (#704).
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See what the public sample says →UTTER in Connections
3 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1092
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UTTER appeared in SPEAK (green group).
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· Puzzle #978
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UTTER appeared in DOWNRIGHT (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #180
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UTTER appeared in ABSOLUTE (green group).
How UTTER performs as a guess
UTTER 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 82.0% of games, misses completely in 18.0%, and leaves about 181 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,161 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe UTTER 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 UTTER 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 UTTER in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
UTTER can come back 89 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 UTTER; 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.
Try next
Strategy after playing UTTER
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to UTTER.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing UTTER:
Research on UTTER
Game-tree analysis and word research for UTTER, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with UTTER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,084 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 UTTER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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
- UTTER sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 7 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Learner level
- Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (2.9 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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).