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VOICE

Yes, VOICE was the Wordle answer on July 8, 2022 (Wordle #384).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /vɔɪs//vɔjs//vɑjs/

Noun

Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.

“The human voice is the oldest musical instrument in history.”

Noun

Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.

Verb

To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce

“He voiced the sentiments of the nation.”

Verb

To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.

Alternative forms: voyce

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 8, 2022 (#384).

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

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How VOICE performs as a guess

VOICE 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 85.3% of games, misses completely in 14.7%, and leaves about 153 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,013 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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___E V in the 1st position and E in the 5th position V__C_ V in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe VOICE 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.

4.81 Entropy (bits)
153 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 72% of evaluated openers
1.14 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How VOICE 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#6,013 Rank among openers
Opening with VOICE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,013 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
866
4 guesses
1,179
5 guesses
230
6 guesses
13
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)
85%
Green tile
42%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
A B A C K
V O I C E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches VOICE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

VOICE can come back 97 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

348 answers
327 answers
170 answers
154 answers
146 answers
134 answers
108 answers
71 answers
67 answers
53 answers
46 answers
44 answers
43 answers
39 answers
36 answers
35 answers
32 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4O1I1C3E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SLART ALTER ARSON SLANT SALTY RIPEN

Strategy after playing VOICE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VOICE:

15% chance
Suggested:
SLART
14% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
7% chance
Suggested:
ARSON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.7% →
SLART 5.91 bits
13.8% →
ALTER 5.40 bits
7.2% →
ARSON 5.13 bits
6.5% →
SLART 5.26 bits
6.1% →
SLANT 5.08 bits
5.6% →
SALTY 4.48 bits
4.5% →
SLART 5.15 bits
3.0% →
RIPEN 4.62 bits
2.8% →
SLART 4.96 bits
2.2% →
SLANT 4.09 bits

Research on VOICE

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

Optimal play

Opening with VOICE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,215 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.89 guesses at best and is rank #3,857 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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 VOYS.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, VOICE is a kind of sound or communication.

Synonyms part SOUND representative spokesperson interpreter vox

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
VOICE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 117 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 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 46 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (4.8 of 5).

In a sentence

You have a good voice.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
You have a great voice.
© tatoeba.org contributor Hybrid (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).