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WOVEN

Yes, WOVEN was the Wordle answer on August 23, 2022 (Wordle #430).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈwəʊ.vən//ˈwoʊ.vən/

Adjective

Fabricated by weaving.

“Woven kevlar is tough enough to be bulletproof.”

Adjective

Interlaced

“The woven words of the sonnet were deep and moving.”

Noun

A cloth formed by weaving. It only stretches in the bias directions (between the warp and weft directions), unless the threads are elastic.

Verb

past participle of weave

“The spider had woven her web on a corner of the attic.”

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: August 23, 2022 (#430).

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

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How WOVEN performs as a guess

WOVEN 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 77.8% of games, misses completely in 22.2%, and leaves about 247 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,667 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___N W in the 1st position and N in the 5th position W__E_ W in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__N O in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SLART ACTOR SAINT STAIR SALTY SEINE
Words starting with W Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.26 Entropy (bits)
247 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 36% of evaluated openers
1.69 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WOVEN 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,667 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WOVEN ranks #10,667 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
732
4 guesses
1,254
5 guesses
293
6 guesses
15
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
2 vowels
Common:
ENO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
30%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
V I N Y L
C O V E N
W O V E N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WOVEN in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

89 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

523
430
174
171
162
131
84
56
38
35
30
28
26
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22
22
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WOVEN:

22% chance
Suggested:
SLART
18% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
ACTOR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.2% →
SLART 5.95 bits
18.2% →
SLART 5.82 bits
7.4% →
ACTOR 4.97 bits
7.3% →
SAINT 5.19 bits
6.9% →
STAIR 4.60 bits
5.6% →
SALTY 4.60 bits
3.6% →
SEINE 4.68 bits
2.4% →
SPIRE 4.29 bits
1.6% →
TRIDE 3.45 bits
1.5% →
LAIRY 3.97 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4O1V4E1N1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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