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WORLD

Yes, WORLD was the Wordle answer on October 29, 2021 (Wordle #132).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /wɜːld//wɜɹld/[wɝɘɫd]

Noun

The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general; the reality we live in.

“In retrospect, the process of economic globalization has meant the end of the world as we knew it.”

Noun

The subjective human experience, regarded individually.

“The period immediately following my divorce seemed like the end of my world.”

Verb

To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focusing on national or other distinctions; compare globalize.

Verb

To make real; to make worldly.

Alternative forms: vurld

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: October 29, 2021 (#132).

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

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How WORLD performs as a guess

WORLD 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 78.8% of games, misses completely in 21.2%, and leaves about 201 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,208 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___D W in the 1st position and D in the 5th position W__L_ W in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

SAINE TEASE SAICE STANE TRACE CASTE
Words starting with W Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.57 Entropy (bits)
201 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 57% of evaluated openers
1.38 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WORLD 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#4,208 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WORLD ranks #4,208 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
914
4 guesses
1,144
5 guesses
221
6 guesses
9
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
30%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
D U C H Y
W O R L D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WORLD in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

499
297
246
126
102
102
90
89
84
54
53
45
34
30
30
29
26
24
24
19
18
17
17
16
15
13
12
12
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WORLD:

21% chance
Suggested:
SAINE
13% chance
Suggested:
TEASE
10% chance
Suggested:
SAICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.2% →
SAINE 6.21 bits
12.6% →
TEASE 5.47 bits
10.4% →
SAICE 5.49 bits
5.3% →
STANE 5.29 bits
4.3% →
TRACE 4.33 bits
4.3% →
CASTE 4.55 bits
3.8% →
SAUTE 4.99 bits
3.8% →
SAUTE 4.94 bits
3.6% →
DAINE 5.12 bits
2.3% →
BLAER 4.39 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4O1R1L1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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