5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

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.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɹaɪt/[ɹaɪt]/ɹəɪt/

Verb

To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.

“The pupil wrote his name on the paper.”

Verb

To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).

“My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald.”

Noun

The act or style of writing.

Noun

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

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 28, 2023 (#800).

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

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How WRITE performs as a guess

WRITE 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 85.2% of games, misses completely in 14.8%, and leaves about 115 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,788 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___E W in the 1st position and E in the 5th position W__T_ W in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SOULY SAULT PENAL CAROL SOLAR SNAIL
Words starting with W Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.23 Entropy (bits)
115 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 93% of evaluated openers
0.72 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#2,788 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WRITE ranks #2,788 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
931
4 guesses
1,126
5 guesses
204
6 guesses
12
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:
EIRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
39%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
T R I T E
W R I T E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WRITE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

120 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

349
156
150
132
132
122
121
83
64
59
56
51
42
42
39
36
34
34
32
30
29
28
27
27
26
24
24
23
16
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WRITE:

15% chance
Suggested:
SOULY
7% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
6% chance
Suggested:
PENAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.8% →
SOULY 5.65 bits
6.6% →
SAULT 4.79 bits
6.4% →
PENAL 5.14 bits
5.6% →
CAROL 5.23 bits
5.6% →
SOLAR 4.32 bits
5.2% →
SAULT 5.04 bits
5.1% →
SNAIL 4.91 bits
3.5% →
SLANT 4.87 bits
2.7% →
COALY 4.41 bits
2.5% →
CANOE 3.87 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4R1I1T1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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