WRATH
Yes, WRATH was the Wordle answer on August 13, 2023 (Wordle #785).
As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ɹɒθ//ɹɔːθ//ɹɑːθ/
- Noun
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Great anger; (countable) an instance of this.
“Homer relates an episode in the Trojan War that reveals the tragic consequences of the wrath of Achilles.”
- Noun
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Punishment, retribution, or vengeance resulting from anger; (countable) an instance of this.
“the wrath of God”
- Verb
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To anger (someone); to enrage.
- Verb
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To become angry with (someone).
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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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
Used oncePast Wordle answer: August 13, 2023 (#785).
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WRATH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.4% of games, misses completely in 19.6%, and leaves about 171 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,863 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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First-turn measures
All four describe WRATH 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 WRATH 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 WRATH in 2 guesses.
Feedback distribution
WRATH can come back 111 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 WRATH; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing WRATH
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to WRATH.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing WRATH:
Research on WRATH
Game-tree analysis and word research for WRATH, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with WRATH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,243 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 WRATH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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.
How it sounds
One syllable Say it RATH.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, WRATH is a kind of rage or sin.
Synonyms ANGER ira ire
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- WRATH sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 5 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 11, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 31 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
In a sentence
No one is safe from my wrath.
Bring on the wrath of the gods.
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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).