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WEIGH

Yes, WEIGH was the Wordle answer on February 3, 2026 (Wordle #1690).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /weɪ/

Verb

To determine the weight of an object.

Verb

Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.

“He weighed out two kilos of oranges for a client.”

Noun

The act of weighing, of measuring the weight

“Give the sugar a quick weigh.”

Alternative forms: waye, weye

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: February 3, 2026 (#1690).

See the full page for that puzzle: February 3, 2026 (#1690).

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

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How WEIGH performs as a guess

WEIGH 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 77.5% of games, misses completely in 22.5%, and leaves about 240 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,117 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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.

W___H W in the 1st position and H in the 5th position W__G_ W in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _E__H E in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe WEIGH 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.

4.30 Entropy (bits)
240 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 38% of evaluated openers
1.65 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WEIGH 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#9,117 Rank among openers
Opening with WEIGH left 1 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 3.74 average. It ranks #9,117 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
796
4 guesses
1,218
5 guesses
275
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
2 vowels
Common:
EI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
31%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
E D I F Y
W E I G H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WEIGH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

WEIGH can come back 85 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

534 answers
414 answers
193 answers
152 answers
99 answers
82 answers
78 answers
75 answers
72 answers
69 answers
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55 answers
41 answers
33 answers
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17 answers
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14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4E1I1G2H4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

ROAST SOLAR SATIN SLART SLANT RIPEN

Strategy after playing WEIGH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WEIGH:

22% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
17% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
8% chance
Suggested:
SATIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.5% →
ROAST 5.94 bits
17.4% →
SOLAR 5.45 bits
8.1% →
SATIN 5.12 bits
6.4% →
SLART 4.95 bits
4.2% →
SLANT 4.95 bits
3.5% →
RIPEN 4.48 bits
3.3% →
STARY 4.98 bits
3.2% →
COAST 4.42 bits
3.0% →
PARLE 3.97 bits
2.9% →
TARSE 5.00 bits

Research on WEIGH

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

Optimal play

Opening with WEIGH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,966 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 WEIGH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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 WAY.

Rhymes with TODAY DELAY ANIME ESSAY SPRAY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, WEIGH is a kind of measure or think.

Synonyms matter PRESS consider COUNT

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
WEIGH sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 10 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
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 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 34 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.6 of 5).

In a sentence

I have to weigh in on this.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)
We need to weigh this.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (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).