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WHARF

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

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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it WAWRF.

Rhymes with DWARF MORPH

Related meanings

Synonyms dock pier BERTH moor

In a sentence

Meet me on the wharf.
© tatoeba.org contributor shekitten (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The ship sounded its whistle and pulled away from the wharf.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use WHARF in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 88.9% of possible answers.

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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).

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WHARF in Connections

1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How WHARF performs as a guess

WHARF is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 75.1% of games, misses completely in 24.9%, and leaves about 265 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,647 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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___F W in the 1st position and F in the 5th position 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

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

First-turn measures

All four describe WHARF 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.

4.18 Entropy (bits)
265 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous 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% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#9,647 Rank among openers
Opening with WHARF solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It 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

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

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

593 answers
332 answers
316 answers
146 answers
123 answers
104 answers
60 answers
52 answers
51 answers
49 answers
41 answers
39 answers
30 answers
30 answers
27 answers
24 answers
22 answers
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18 answers
16 answers
13 answers
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11 answers
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11 answers
9 answers

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.

Try next

TOILE SALET TOISE TALER SLICE TOUCH

Strategy after playing WHARF

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

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.

24.9% →
TOILE 6.12 bits
13.9% →
SALET 5.28 bits
13.3% →
TOISE 5.31 bits
6.1% →
TALER 4.67 bits
5.2% →
SLICE 5.14 bits
4.4% →
TOUCH 4.90 bits
2.5% →
TUILE 5.08 bits
2.2% →
TOISE 4.73 bits
2.1% →
DRICE 3.86 bits
2.1% →
STOLE 4.54 bits

Research on WHARF

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

Optimal play

Opening with WHARF, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,057 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.91 guesses at best and is rank #4,354 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
WHARF sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 11, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 61 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.4 of 5).

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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).