WIGHT
WIGHT is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /waɪt/
- Noun
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A supernatural being, often used in compounds such as the land-vættr which guard the land, especially the four guardians of Iceland.
- Noun
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A ghost, deity or other supernatural entity.
- Adjective
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Brave, valorous, strong.
- Adjective
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Strong; stout; active.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English wight, wiȝt, from Old English wiht (“thing, creature”), from Proto-West Germanic *wihti, from Proto-Germanic *wihtiz (“thing, creature”, literally “being”), from Proto-Indo-European *wekti- (“cause, sake, thing”), from *wekʷ- (“to say, tell”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it WYT.
Rhymes with RIGHT MIGHT NIGHT WHITE LIGHT
Related meanings
Synonyms creature wraith
Use WIGHT in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 86.5% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.
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2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1055
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WIGHT appeared in NUMBERS WITH FIRST LETTER CHANGED (purple group).
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· Puzzle #818
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WIGHT appeared in APPARITION (green group).
How WIGHT performs as a guess
WIGHT 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 68.0% of games, misses completely in 32.0%, and leaves about 323 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,883 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe WIGHT 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How WIGHT 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches WIGHT in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
WIGHT can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for WIGHT; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing WIGHT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to WIGHT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing WIGHT:
Research on WIGHT
Game-tree analysis and word research for WIGHT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with WIGHT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,569 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with WIGHT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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
- WIGHT sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
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).