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VIDEO

Yes, VIDEO was the Wordle answer on July 14, 2024 (Wordle #1121).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈvɪd.i.əʊ//ˈvɪd.i.oʊ//ˈʋi.ɖɪ.jo/

Noun

Transient visual content or media, processed with technology, especially electronic.

“Early TV used film to record video.”

Noun

A recording or medium of visual content, especially audiovisual content for playback; a motion picture, movie, film.

Verb

To record using a video camera, to videotape.

Verb

To record a television program.

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: July 14, 2024 (#1121).

See the full page for that puzzle: July 14, 2024 (#1121).

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

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How VIDEO performs as a guess

VIDEO 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 83.0% of games, misses completely in 17.0%, and leaves about 198 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,401 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.

V___O V in the 1st position and O in the 5th position V__E_ V in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__O I in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe VIDEO 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.

4.47 Entropy (bits)
198 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 50% of evaluated openers
1.48 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How VIDEO 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
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#8,401 Rank among openers
Opening with VIDEO left 2 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 3.73 average. It ranks #8,401 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
774
4 guesses
1,258
5 guesses
244
6 guesses
11
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
3 vowels
Common:
EIO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
26%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
D E M O N
V I D E O

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches VIDEO in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

VIDEO can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

404 answers
345 answers
293 answers
195 answers
147 answers
94 answers
91 answers
75 answers
57 answers
56 answers
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11 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4I1D2E1O1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SLART ROOST SLANT TALER TRINE SNORE

Strategy after playing VIDEO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VIDEO:

17% chance
Suggested:
SLART
15% chance
Suggested:
SLART
12% chance
Suggested:
ROOST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.0% →
SLART 5.94 bits
14.5% →
SLART 5.98 bits
12.3% →
ROOST 5.17 bits
8.2% →
SLANT 5.63 bits
6.2% →
TALER 4.56 bits
4.0% →
TRINE 4.51 bits
3.8% →
SNORE 4.51 bits
3.2% →
SALTY 4.16 bits
2.4% →
REATE 4.72 bits
2.4% →
SWORD 4.16 bits

Research on VIDEO

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

Optimal play

Opening with VIDEO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,263 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 VIDEO can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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

Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it VIHDEEOH.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, VIDEO is a kind of communication or recording.

Synonyms tv picture television

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
VIDEO sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 269 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 A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 76 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.8 of 5).

In a sentence

This is my new video.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Make a video about that.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (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).