June 2024 in review

June 2024 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 Jun 30, 2024 and the lowest on Jun 1, 2024; 10 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

Highest estimated difficulty

BUDDY 2.5 pts · Jun 30, 2024 · #1,107

BUDDY repeats D. A no-repeat strategy is slow to test the second copy, and the scale weighs each duplicate more heavily than any other single feature.

Lowest estimated difficulty

BASIN 0 pts · Jun 1, 2024 · #1,078

BASIN 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 Jun 1, 2024 to 2.5 on Jun 30, 2024. 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. June's 30 answers averaged 1.2 points on the estimated word-difficulty scale against 1.1 across the trailing six months, and a gap of 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

10 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: Jun 4 (#1,081) doubled O; Jun 6 (#1,083) doubled E; Jun 8 (#1,085) doubled E; Jun 10 (#1,087) doubled A; Jun 12 (#1,089) doubled E; Jun 17 (#1,094) doubled R; Jun 19 (#1,096) doubled E; Jun 24 (#1,101) doubled L; Jun 27 (#1,104) doubled R; Jun 30 (#1,107) doubled D.

Uncommon-letter days: Jun 2 (#1,079) used V; Jun 3 (#1,080) used K; Jun 9 (#1,086) used W; Jun 11 (#1,088) used W; Jun 14 (#1,091) used V; Jun 18 (#1,095) used V; Jun 25 (#1,102) used V; Jun 26 (#1,103) used K; Jun 28 (#1,105) used V; Jun 29 (#1,106) 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.

DateDayPuzzleAnswerWord difficulty
Jun 30, 2024 Sunday #1,107 → BUDDY Tricky
Jun 29, 2024 Saturday #1,106 → ZEBRA Moderate
Jun 28, 2024 Friday #1,105 → DROVE Moderate
Jun 27, 2024 Thursday #1,104 → ORDER Moderate
Jun 26, 2024 Wednesday #1,103 → KNEAD Tricky
Jun 25, 2024 Tuesday #1,102 → SAVOR Tricky
Jun 24, 2024 Monday #1,101 → DOLLY Tricky
Jun 23, 2024 Sunday #1,100 → BUGLE Tricky
Jun 22, 2024 Saturday #1,099 → EDICT Easy
Jun 21, 2024 Friday #1,098 → PAINT Easy
Jun 20, 2024 Thursday #1,097 → SCENT Moderate
Jun 19, 2024 Wednesday #1,096 → TERSE Tricky
Jun 18, 2024 Tuesday #1,095 → COVER Moderate
Jun 17, 2024 Monday #1,094 → PRIOR Moderate
Jun 16, 2024 Sunday #1,093 → GRIND Moderate
Jun 15, 2024 Saturday #1,092 → PROUD Easy
Jun 14, 2024 Friday #1,091 → VAULT Moderate
Jun 13, 2024 Thursday #1,090 → ANGST Moderate
Jun 12, 2024 Wednesday #1,089 → DETER Moderate
Jun 11, 2024 Tuesday #1,088 → SWUNG Tricky
Jun 10, 2024 Monday #1,087 → MANGA Moderate
Jun 9, 2024 Sunday #1,086 → CROWD Tricky
Jun 8, 2024 Saturday #1,085 → HENCE Moderate
Jun 7, 2024 Friday #1,084 → MELON Easy
Jun 6, 2024 Thursday #1,083 → ETHER Moderate
Jun 5, 2024 Wednesday #1,082 → ORGAN Easy
Jun 4, 2024 Tuesday #1,081 → GROOM Moderate
Jun 3, 2024 Monday #1,080 → STARK Tricky
Jun 2, 2024 Sunday #1,079 → BRAVO Moderate
Jun 1, 2024 Saturday #1,078 → BASIN 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.

  1. 1 year ago
    Easy

    Nothing unusual appears in the letters: all five are distinct and familiar. Ordinary letter coverage works well on words like this.

    Puzzle #1,541 → Word page →

  2. 2 years ago
    Moderate

    Nothing unusual appears in the letters: all five are distinct and familiar. Ordinary letter coverage works well on words like this.

    Puzzle #1,176 → Word page →

  3. 3 years ago
    Hard

    The doubled L raises the difficulty. Once a letter shows up yellow or green, few players try it a second time unprompted.

    Puzzle #810 → Word page →

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

30 Answers
B Most common start (4)
R Most common end (6)
BUDDY Highest estimated difficulty

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 6
  • Moderate 15
  • Tricky 9

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