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WHEAT

Yes, WHEAT was the Wordle answer on April 9, 2025 (Wordle #1390).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈwiːt/[ˈwɪi̯t]/ˈʍiːt/

Noun

Any of the several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.

“They bought a sack of wheat and a sack of rye with the intent to try their hand at milling and baking.”

Noun

A light brown color, like that of wheat.

“They debated the paint color options for the bathroom walls and settled on wheat.”

Adjective

Wheaten, of a light brown color, like that of wheat.

Alternative forms: wheate

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Middle English whete, from Old English hwǣte, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaitī, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz (compare West Frisian weet, Dutch weit, Low German Weten, German Weizen, Danish hvede, Swedish vete, Norwegian Bokmål hvete, Norwegian Nynorsk kveite, Faroese and Icelandic hveiti), from *hwītaz (“white”). More at white.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it WEET.

Rhymes with SWEET TREAT ELITE SHEET FLEET

Related meanings

Synonyms STRAW

In a sentence

The wheat is high this year.
© tatoeba.org contributor Nuel (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The wheat field is there.
© tatoeba.org contributor jan_usawi_sewi_o (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use WHEAT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.9% 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: April 9, 2025 (#1390).

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WHEAT in Connections

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

How WHEAT performs as a guess

WHEAT 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 85.0% of games, misses completely in 15.0%, and leaves about 169 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,796 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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___T W in the 1st position and T in the 5th position W__A_ W in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _H__T H in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe WHEAT 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.

4.80 Entropy (bits)
169 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WHEAT 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#7,796 Rank among openers
Opening with WHEAT left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #7,796 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
75
3 guesses
810
4 guesses
1,185
5 guesses
267
6 guesses
15

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
28%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S P L A T
C H E A T
W H E A T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WHEAT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

WHEAT can come back 111 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

361 answers
358 answers
251 answers
174 answers
83 answers
78 answers
75 answers
64 answers
63 answers
63 answers
61 answers
48 answers
48 answers
37 answers
33 answers
32 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
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15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4H4E1A1T1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

RIONE SOILY SALON GLARE POIRE NOIRE

Strategy after playing WHEAT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WHEAT:

15% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
15% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
11% chance
Suggested:
SALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.1% →
RIONE 5.29 bits
15.0% →
SOILY 5.73 bits
10.5% →
SALON 5.03 bits
7.3% →
GLARE 4.71 bits
3.5% →
SOILY 4.68 bits
3.3% →
POIRE 4.54 bits
3.1% →
NOIRE 4.64 bits
2.7% →
CORAL 4.47 bits
2.6% →
SATIN 4.40 bits
2.6% →
SNEER 4.33 bits

Research on WHEAT

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

Optimal play

Opening with WHEAT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,501 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.88 guesses at best and is rank #3,796 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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
WHEAT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 10 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 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 88 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with taste (4.3 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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).