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WEIRD

Yes, WEIRD was the Wordle answer on October 31, 2024 (Wordle #1230).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈwɪə(ɹ)d//ˈwiːə(ɹ)d//ˈwiɚd/

Adjective

Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.

“There are lots of weird people in this place.”

Adjective

Deviating from the normal; bizarre.

“It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.”

Noun

A prediction.

Noun

That which comes to pass; a fact.

Alternative forms: weïrd, wierd, weyard, weyward

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: October 31, 2024 (#1230).

See the full page for that puzzle: October 31, 2024 (#1230).

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

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How WEIRD performs as a guess

WEIRD 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 81.3% of games, misses completely in 18.7%, and leaves about 171 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,198 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___D W in the 1st position and D in the 5th position W__R_ W in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _E__D E in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe WEIRD 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.

4.83 Entropy (bits)
171 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.12 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WEIRD 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,198 Rank among openers
Opening with WEIRD solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,198 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
921
4 guesses
1,168
5 guesses
187
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:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
32%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E D
W E I R D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WEIRD in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

WEIRD can come back 108 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

443 answers
286 answers
181 answers
172 answers
156 answers
92 answers
90 answers
54 answers
53 answers
52 answers
48 answers
46 answers
42 answers
32 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
23 answers
22 answers
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20 answers
17 answers
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16 answers
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14 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4E1I1R1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SAULT SLANT COAST PATEE SATIN SHALT

Strategy after playing WEIRD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WEIRD:

19% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
12% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
8% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.7% →
SAULT 5.95 bits
12.0% →
SLANT 5.79 bits
7.6% →
COAST 5.42 bits
7.2% →
PATEE 4.76 bits
6.6% →
SATIN 5.09 bits
3.9% →
SHALT 4.75 bits
3.8% →
SLANT 5.15 bits
2.3% →
COAST 4.68 bits
2.2% →
TINGE 4.31 bits
2.2% →
REBEL 3.63 bits

Research on WEIRD

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

Optimal play

Opening with WEIRD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,284 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 WEIRD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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 WIHRD.

Rhymes with BEARD EARED

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, WEIRD is a kind of god.

Synonyms uncanny strange unusual supernatural

Opposites natural familiar

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
WEIRD sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 65 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 B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 38 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.

In a sentence

Was that weird for you?
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)
This is a weird one.
© 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).