5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

WHARF

Yes, WHARF was the Wordle answer on June 9, 2026 (Wordle #1816).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːf//ˈwɔɹf//ˈʍɔɹf/

Noun

An artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore.

Verb

To secure by a wharf.

Verb

To place on a wharf.

Noun

Any bank of a river or shore of a sea.

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: June 9, 2026 (#1816).

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

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How WHARF performs as a guess

WHARF is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 75.3% of games, misses completely in 24.7%, and leaves about 260 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,647 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

W__R_ W in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _H__F H in the 2nd position and F in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE SALET TOISE TALER SLICE TOUCH
Words starting with W Words ending with F

First-turn measures

4.19 Entropy (bits)
260 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 32% of evaluated openers
1.76 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WHARF 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#9,647 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WHARF ranks #9,647 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
785
4 guesses
1,223
5 guesses
285
6 guesses
11
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
25%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S W I N G
B A T C H
W H A R F

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WHARF in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

85 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

583
329
313
144
123
103
59
51
51
48
41
38
30
29
27
24
22
22
20
19
18
16
13
13
12
11
11
11
11
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WHARF:

25% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
14% chance
Suggested:
SALET
13% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.7% →
TOILE 6.13 bits
14.0% →
SALET 5.29 bits
13.3% →
TOISE 5.31 bits
6.1% →
TALER 4.65 bits
5.2% →
SLICE 5.14 bits
4.4% →
TOUCH 4.91 bits
2.5% →
TUILE 5.07 bits
2.2% →
DRICE 3.86 bits
2.2% →
TOISE 4.73 bits
2.0% →
STOLE 4.53 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4H4A1R1F4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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