WRITE
Yes, WRITE was the Wordle answer on August 28, 2023 (Wordle #800).
As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ɹaɪt/[ɹaɪt]/ɹəɪt/
- Verb
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To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
“The pupil wrote his name on the paper.”
- Verb
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To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
“My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald.”
- Noun
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The act or style of writing.
- Noun
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The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.
“How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?”
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
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 28, 2023 (#800).
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See what the public sample says →How WRITE performs as a guess
WRITE 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 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 116 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,788 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe WRITE 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 WRITE 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 WRITE in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
WRITE can come back 120 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 WRITE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing WRITE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to WRITE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing WRITE:
Research on WRITE
Game-tree analysis and word research for WRITE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with WRITE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,092 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best and is rank #1,101 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, 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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, WRITE is a kind of make or communicate.
Synonyms save pen SPELL compose
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- WRITE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 107 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 67 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
In a sentence
I will write to you.
Do you like to write?
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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).