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WHICH

Yes, WHICH was the Wordle answer on February 6, 2024 (Wordle #962).

As an opener, it rules out about 77.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /wɪt͡ʃ//ʍɪt͡ʃ/

Determiner

What, of those mentioned or implied.

“Which song shall we play?”

Determiner

The/Any ... that; whichever.

“Take which one you want.”

Pronoun

What one or ones (of those mentioned or implied).

“Which is which?”

Pronoun

The/Any ones that; whichever.

“Please take which you please.”

Alternative forms: whiche, wich

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: February 6, 2024 (#962).

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

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How WHICH performs as a guess

WHICH 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 55.8% of games, misses completely in 44.2%, and leaves about 533 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,708 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 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___H W in the 1st position and H in the 5th position W__C_ W in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _H__H H in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE TALER SLANE CARLE SOLER TASER
Words starting with W Words ending with H

First-turn measures

3.30 Entropy (bits)
533 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
77.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 4% of evaluated openers
2.65 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WHICH 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.

3.88 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#13,708 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WHICH ranks #13,708 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
645
4 guesses
1,273
5 guesses
374
6 guesses
28
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
1 vowels
Common:
I

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
56%
Green tile
26%
All gray
44%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
C H I C K
W H I C H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WHICH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

59 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1043
278
179
176
78
64
60
55
53
50
43
34
25
21
19
14
12
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10
9
8
8
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7
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6
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WHICH:

44% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
12% chance
Suggested:
TALER
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

44.2% →
ROATE 6.05 bits
11.8% →
TALER 5.20 bits
7.6% →
SLANE 5.16 bits
7.5% →
CARLE 5.69 bits
3.3% →
SOLER 5.07 bits
2.7% →
TASER 4.89 bits
2.5% →
TRAPE 4.76 bits
2.3% →
LEAST 4.76 bits
2.2% →
STURE 4.43 bits
2.1% →
CANOE 4.06 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4H4I1C3H4
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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