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WRIST

Yes, WRIST was the Wordle answer on April 5, 2024 (Wordle #1021).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɹɪst/

Noun

The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense.

“With a flick of the wrist, he threw the frisbee to a team-mate.”

Noun

A stud or pin which forms a journal.

Verb

To hit a wrist shot.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Middle English wrist, from Old English wrist, from Proto-West Germanic *wristu, from Proto-Germanic *wristuz (compare Old Frisian wrist, Low German Wrist, German Rist (“back of hand, instep, withers”), Swedish vrist), from Proto-Germanic *wrīþaną (“to twist, turn”). More at writhe.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it RIHST.

Rhymes with EXIST TWIST GRIST TRYST FRIST

In a sentence

I took him by the wrist.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I have a broken wrist.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use WRIST in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.

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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: April 5, 2024 (#1021).

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

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WRIST in Connections

4 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How WRIST performs as a guess

WRIST 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 80.7% of games, misses completely in 19.3%, and leaves about 159 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,663 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

W___T W in the 1st position and T in the 5th position W__S_ W in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _R__T R in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position WR_ST W in the 1st position, R in the 2nd position, S in the 4th position, and T in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in WRIST.

First-turn measures

All four describe WRIST 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.

4.94 Entropy (bits)
159 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WRIST 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#1,663 Rank among openers
Opening with WRIST solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,663 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
995
4 guesses
1,089
5 guesses
191
6 guesses
13

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IRST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
35%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U I T
F I R S T
W R I S T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WRIST in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

WRIST can come back 112 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

460 answers
247 answers
142 answers
136 answers
121 answers
101 answers
76 answers
70 answers
70 answers
68 answers
61 answers
60 answers
53 answers
47 answers
40 answers
32 answers
32 answers
29 answers
27 answers
27 answers
24 answers
22 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4R1I1S1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

ALONE RAREE LIANE HAOLE CANOE CLONE

Strategy after playing WRIST

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to WRIST.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WRIST:

19% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
10% chance
Suggested:
RAREE
6% chance
Suggested:
LIANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.3% →
ALONE 6.07 bits
10.4% →
RAREE 5.08 bits
6.0% →
LIANE 5.09 bits
5.7% →
HAOLE 5.13 bits
5.1% →
HAOLE 5.37 bits
4.2% →
CANOE 4.82 bits
3.2% →
CLONE 4.95 bits
2.9% →
CLADE 4.91 bits
2.9% →
HAOLE 4.88 bits
2.9% →
OLATE 4.48 bits

Research on WRIST

Game-tree analysis and word research for WRIST, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with WRIST, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,058 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.77 guesses at best and is rank #594 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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
WRIST sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 10 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 93 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).