Highest estimated difficulty
KAYAK doubles K, an uncommon letter. The scale's two heaviest penalties land on one letter because ordinary openers rarely probe K at all, let alone twice.
Past Answers
Wordle Answers: April 2023
Browse all 30 completed answers from April 2023, with a page for each puzzle's definition, difficulty and solver replay.
April 2023 in review
April 2023 is complete, with 30 puzzles and every date recorded. On the site's word-property scale it was an ordinary month. The highest estimated difficulty occurred on Apr 21, 2023 and the lowest on Apr 3, 2023; 8 answers doubled a letter and 10 answers used at least one of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.
The hardest and easiest answers
Lowest estimated difficulty
FLORA 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 3, 2023 to 5 on Apr 21, 2023. 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 ordinary month. April's 30 answers averaged 1.4 points on the estimated word-difficulty scale against 1.4 across the trailing six months, and a gap of less than 0.1 points sits inside the normal month-to-month spread of about ±0.3. At roughly thirty answers a month that is sampling noise, not a change in how answers were chosen. The difference does not support changing openers or strategy. The scale combines general-English corpus frequency with repeats, uncommon letters and missing vowels. It measures word properties, not player results.
Letters and patterns
8 of 30 answers doubled a letter, in line with the long-run archive rate of about 31%. This matches the usual rate. Test a repeat when the board stalls.
10 of 30 answers used at least one of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W, in line with 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 5 (#655) doubled S; Apr 8 (#658) doubled E; Apr 13 (#663) doubled A; Apr 17 (#667) doubled F; Apr 21 (#671) doubled A and K; Apr 24 (#674) doubled T; Apr 28 (#678) doubled C; Apr 30 (#680) doubled A.
Uncommon-letter days: Apr 2 (#652) used K; Apr 11 (#661) used Q; Apr 12 (#662) used X; Apr 16 (#666) used W; Apr 17 (#667) used W; Apr 21 (#671) used K; Apr 22 (#672) used K; Apr 23 (#673) used Z; Apr 25 (#675) used J and K; Apr 30 (#680) used Z.
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, 2023 | Sunday | #680 → | PLAZA | Tricky |
| Apr 29, 2023 | Saturday | #679 → | CEDAR | Easy |
| Apr 28, 2023 | Friday | #678 → | CIRCA | Moderate |
| Apr 27, 2023 | Thursday | #677 → | LOGIC | Easy |
| Apr 26, 2023 | Wednesday | #676 → | METRO | Easy |
| Apr 25, 2023 | Tuesday | #675 → | JOKER | Tricky |
| Apr 24, 2023 | Monday | #674 → | DITTO | Moderate |
| Apr 23, 2023 | Sunday | #673 → | UNZIP | Tricky |
| Apr 22, 2023 | Saturday | #672 → | BROKE | Moderate |
| Apr 21, 2023 | Friday | #671 → | KAYAK | Brutal |
| Apr 20, 2023 | Thursday | #670 → | PLATE | Easy |
| Apr 19, 2023 | Wednesday | #669 → | THUMP | Tricky |
| Apr 18, 2023 | Tuesday | #668 → | HOUND | Easy |
| Apr 17, 2023 | Monday | #667 → | WHIFF | Hard |
| Apr 16, 2023 | Sunday | #666 → | DWELT | Tricky |
| Apr 15, 2023 | Saturday | #665 → | AGONY | Easy |
| Apr 14, 2023 | Friday | #664 → | THIEF | Easy |
| Apr 13, 2023 | Thursday | #663 → | CARAT | Moderate |
| Apr 12, 2023 | Wednesday | #662 → | BORAX | Hard |
| Apr 11, 2023 | Tuesday | #661 → | QUALM | Brutal |
| Apr 10, 2023 | Monday | #660 → | UNDER | Easy |
| Apr 9, 2023 | Sunday | #659 → | SNAFU | Tricky |
| Apr 8, 2023 | Saturday | #658 → | LEDGE | Moderate |
| Apr 7, 2023 | Friday | #657 → | LOCUS | Easy |
| Apr 6, 2023 | Thursday | #656 → | LEAFY | Easy |
| Apr 5, 2023 | Wednesday | #655 → | SMASH | Tricky |
| Apr 4, 2023 | Tuesday | #654 → | RATIO | Easy |
| Apr 3, 2023 | Monday | #653 → | FLORA | Easy |
| Apr 2, 2023 | Sunday | #652 → | STOCK | Tricky |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Saturday | #651 → | MARCH | Moderate |
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 12
- Moderate 6
- Tricky 8
- Hard 2
- Brutal 2