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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

WHERE

Yes, WHERE was the Wordle answer on March 9, 2023 (Wordle #628).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈwɛə/[ˈwɛə]/ˈʍɛə/

Adverb

In, at or to what place.

“Where are you?”

Adverb

In what situation.

“Where would we be without our parents?”

Conjunction

While on the contrary; although; whereas.

“Where Susy has trouble coloring inside the lines, Johnny has already mastered shading.”

Conjunction

That.

“I read where they caught the guy.”

Alternative forms: quhair, quhar, quher, quhere

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: March 9, 2023 (#628).

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

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How WHERE performs as a guess

WHERE 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 72.8% of games, misses completely in 27.2%, and leaves about 257 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,490 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

W___E W in the 1st position and E in the 5th position W__R_ W in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _H__E H in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SLAIN TRIAL SLANT LEANT AIDER SOUTH
Words starting with W Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.31 Entropy (bits)
257 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 39% of evaluated openers
1.64 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WHERE 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#10,490 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WHERE ranks #10,490 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
782
4 guesses
1,188
5 guesses
309
6 guesses
22
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
35%
All gray
27%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P R I S M
G E N R E
W H E R E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WHERE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

87 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

641
255
198
173
157
112
82
60
47
47
36
34
31
30
23
21
21
20
18
17
17
17
16
15
15
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11
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WHERE:

27% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
11% chance
Suggested:
TRIAL
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.2% →
SLAIN 5.90 bits
10.8% →
TRIAL 4.98 bits
8.4% →
SLANT 5.22 bits
7.3% →
LEANT 5.26 bits
6.7% →
AIDER 3.96 bits
4.7% →
SOUTH 4.87 bits
3.5% →
COAST 4.16 bits
2.5% →
COAST 4.69 bits
2.0% →
SLANT 4.85 bits
2.0% →
SAUNT 4.33 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4H4E1R1E1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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