Highest estimated difficulty
ZESTY appears less than once per million words in the corpus-based frequency data, so familiarity alone sets a Hard floor. Its letters add points too, but corpus frequency sets the minimum rating.
Past Answers
Wordle Answers: April 2022
Browse all 30 completed answers from April 2022, with a page for each puzzle's definition, difficulty and solver replay.
April 2022 in review
April 2022 is complete, with 30 puzzles and every date recorded. On the site's word-property scale it was an unusually gentle one. The highest estimated difficulty occurred on Apr 28, 2022 and the lowest on Apr 1, 2022; 5 answers doubled a letter and 12 answers used at least one of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.
The hardest and easiest answers
Lowest estimated difficulty
SNOUT has five distinct letters, 2 vowels and no uncommon letters. Common first guesses therefore test many of its letters.
The spread ran from 0 points on Apr 1, 2022 to 3.5 on Apr 28, 2022. Both numbers describe single words, not a sequence. A hard day and an easy one can occur in the same week, so the trend line below compares whole months rather than individual days.
The difficulty trend
An unusually gentle month by the estimate. April's 30 answers averaged 1.0 points against 1.3 across the trailing six months, 0.4 points below, outside the normal month-to-month spread of about ±0.3. Fewer answers with low corpus frequency, repeats, uncommon letters or few vowels appeared than usual. The scale combines general-English corpus frequency with repeats, uncommon letters and missing vowels. It measures word properties, not player results.
Letters and patterns
5 of 30 answers doubled a letter, below the long-run archive rate of about 31%. Fewer than usual, so plain no-repeat guessing went largely unpunished.
12 of 30 answers used at least one of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W, above the long-run archive rate of about 28%. Standard openers test these letters less often, so the difficulty scale adds a penalty for each one.
No day reused an earlier answer: every puzzle this month was a first appearance in the site's recorded history. Repeats do happen, so a word having been a solution before is still no reason to drop it from your guesses.
Double-letter days: Apr 3 (#288) doubled E; Apr 5 (#290) doubled A; Apr 6 (#291) doubled M; Apr 16 (#301) doubled E; Apr 30 (#315) doubled A.
Uncommon-letter days: Apr 3 (#288) used W; Apr 4 (#289) used W; Apr 10 (#295) used K; Apr 11 (#296) used Q; Apr 13 (#298) used K; Apr 16 (#301) used K; Apr 21 (#306) used X; Apr 23 (#308) used V; Apr 25 (#310) used K and W; Apr 27 (#312) used W; Apr 28 (#313) used Z; Apr 30 (#315) used V.
How players fared
No day from this month has reached the Observatory's minimum public sample of 10 opt-in games, so no crowd numbers appear. The gate is deliberate: below it, a handful of results could stand in for a crowd and misrepresent a day.
Answer words are shown only for completed puzzles. Open a puzzle for its definition, difficulty and solver replay.
| Date | Day | Puzzle | Answer | Word difficulty |
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| Apr 30, 2022 | Saturday | #315 → | LARVA | Tricky |
| Apr 29, 2022 | Friday | #314 → | TRASH | Moderate |
| Apr 28, 2022 | Thursday | #313 → | ZESTY | Hard |
| Apr 27, 2022 | Wednesday | #312 → | SHOWN | Tricky |
| Apr 26, 2022 | Tuesday | #311 → | HEIST | Easy |
| Apr 25, 2022 | Monday | #310 → | ASKEW | Tricky |
| Apr 24, 2022 | Sunday | #309 → | INERT | Easy |
| Apr 23, 2022 | Saturday | #308 → | OLIVE | Moderate |
| Apr 22, 2022 | Friday | #307 → | PLANT | Moderate |
| Apr 21, 2022 | Thursday | #306 → | OXIDE | Moderate |
| Apr 20, 2022 | Wednesday | #305 → | CARGO | Easy |
| Apr 19, 2022 | Tuesday | #304 → | FOYER | Easy |
| Apr 18, 2022 | Monday | #303 → | FLAIR | Easy |
| Apr 17, 2022 | Sunday | #302 → | AMPLE | Easy |
| Apr 16, 2022 | Saturday | #301 → | CHEEK | Tricky |
| Apr 15, 2022 | Friday | #300 → | SHAME | Easy |
| Apr 14, 2022 | Thursday | #299 → | MINCE | Easy |
| Apr 13, 2022 | Wednesday | #298 → | CHUNK | Tricky |
| Apr 12, 2022 | Tuesday | #297 → | ROYAL | Easy |
| Apr 11, 2022 | Monday | #296 → | SQUAD Used 2 times | Moderate |
| Apr 10, 2022 | Sunday | #295 → | BLACK | Tricky |
| Apr 9, 2022 | Saturday | #294 → | STAIR | Easy |
| Apr 8, 2022 | Friday | #293 → | SCARE | Easy |
| Apr 7, 2022 | Thursday | #292 → | FORAY | Easy |
| Apr 6, 2022 | Wednesday | #291 → | COMMA | Moderate |
| Apr 5, 2022 | Tuesday | #290 → | NATAL | Moderate |
| Apr 4, 2022 | Monday | #289 → | SHAWL | Tricky |
| Apr 3, 2022 | Sunday | #288 → | FEWER | Tricky |
| Apr 2, 2022 | Saturday | #287 → | TROPE | Easy |
| Apr 1, 2022 | Friday | #286 → | SNOUT | Easy |
On this day in Wordle
Past answers published on September 7 in earlier years. Every puzzle listed here is complete, so this section does not spoil a live game.
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1 year ago
Nothing unusual appears in the letters: all five are distinct and familiar. Ordinary letter coverage works well on words like this.
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2 years ago
Nothing unusual appears in the letters: all five are distinct and familiar. Ordinary letter coverage works well on words like this.
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3 years ago
The doubled L raises the difficulty. Once a letter shows up yellow or green, few players try it a second time unprompted.
The Easy-to-Brutal badge combines general-English corpus frequency with repeats, uncommon letters and vowel count. It estimates word difficulty, not player results. Dates come from the site's recorded answer history.
Archive totals
Estimated word difficulty combines wordfreq corpus frequency with repeats, uncommon letters and vowel count. It measures word properties, not player results. Compare solver difficulty →
- Easy 14
- Moderate 7
- Tricky 8
- Hard 1