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VOTER

Yes, VOTER was the Wordle answer on March 25, 2023 (Wordle #644).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈvəʊtə(ɹ)//ˈvoʊtɚ/

Noun

Someone who votes.

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 25, 2023 (#644).

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How VOTER performs as a guess

VOTER 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 84.4% of games, misses completely in 15.6%, and leaves about 137 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,777 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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First-turn measures

All four describe VOTER 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.

4.97 Entropy (bits)
137 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 82% of evaluated openers
0.98 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How VOTER 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,777 Rank among openers
Opening with VOTER 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 3.68 average. It ranks #5,777 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
75
3 guesses
836
4 guesses
1,215
5 guesses
209
6 guesses
16
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
2 vowels
Common:
EORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
30%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
T O W E R
V O T E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches VOTER in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

VOTER can come back 107 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

370 answers
252 answers
152 answers
139 answers
125 answers
115 answers
102 answers
93 answers
77 answers
68 answers
64 answers
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49 answers
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26 answers
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13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4O1T1E1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing VOTER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VOTER:

16% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
6% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.6%
SLAIN 5.88 bits
10.6%
SLANE 5.39 bits
6.4%
CAIRN 4.86 bits
5.9%
SAINT 5.51 bits
5.3%
CRARE 4.56 bits
4.8%
SHALT 5.17 bits
4.3%
SALON 5.08 bits
3.9%
SADLY 4.34 bits
3.2%
SADLY 3.58 bits
2.9%
TRAIT 4.63 bits

Research on VOTER

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

Optimal play

Opening with VOTER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,940 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 VOTER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it VOHTUR.

Rhymes with MOTOR ROTOR

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, VOTER is a kind of citizen.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
VOTER sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 13 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 B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 10, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 62 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.5 of 5).

In a sentence

Are you a registered voter?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Tom is a single-issue voter.
© tatoeba.org contributor ddnktr (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).