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Hints for Wordle #1030

What kind of word

Wiktionary lists it as a noun.

What it means

“An airship constructed with a nonrigid lifting agent container.”

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

Fill the gap

“After college, she started _____ and could no longer wear her favorite little black dress.”

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentence selected from Wiktionary, with the answer removed.

How it starts

Begins with B.

How it ends

Ends in P.

Reveal the answer and explanation

The answer to Wordle #1,030 was

BLIMP: An airship constructed with a nonrigid lifting agent container.

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

Word difficulty: Tricky

Why it may be difficult: uncommon in general English, only one vowel.

The word rating describes familiarity and letter features. The solver score below measures how a fixed strategy handles the puzzle; an unusual word can still be easy for that strategy.

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How difficult was it for the solver?

Solver pressure: 49/100 (middle of the pack). This is a percentile among past puzzles under the same strategy: 0 is easiest and 100 is hardest for the solver.

274 Possible answers after CRANE
40 Possible answers after SLATE
105 Possible answers after ADIEU
3 Guesses in the solver replay

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Wordle #1,030, measured

This section compares BLIMP's solver-difficulty percentile, first-guess results for ten familiar openers, and opt-in player reports. Each number identifies its dataset.

Solver difficulty, as a percentile

49/100

This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, BLIMP measured harder for the solver than about 49% of all 1,952 recorded answers to date. Its rating is middle of the pack. CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave a large group.

Solver pressure ranks the answer within the pool; it does not measure player performance. The opener table compares first-guess results, and the contributed ratings report player results.

CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU benchmark

SLATE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 40 of the 2,384 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, AUDIO left 275 candidates, about 7 times as many. STARE, TARSE, TRACE and CRANE came back all gray. None of their letters appear in BLIMP.

First-guess feedback each opener would have received against BLIMP, and how many answer-pool words would still match it
OpenerFirst-guess feedbackAnswers still possible
SLATE SLATE 40
ARISE ARISE 51
RAISE RAISE 51
SALET SALET 100
ADIEU ADIEU 105
STARE STARE 236
TARSE TARSE 236
TRACE TRACE 256
CRANE CRANE 274
AUDIO AUDIO 275

“Answers still possible” counts the words in the site's 2,384-word working answer pool whose feedback would match that opener exactly. This is pattern arithmetic, not a simulation. A smaller number means the opener left fewer possible answers after the first guess. It does not describe later turns.

Contributed player ratings

Not enough contributed games to publish player figures for this puzzle. Per-puzzle numbers appear only after at least 10 opt-in games arrive. See how the Observatory collects and publishes player data →

What did you get?

Tap your result to compare it with contributed games. Your choice stays in this browser and is not sent anywhere.

1 Suppressed
2 Suppressed
3 12
4 10
5 Suppressed
6 Suppressed
X Suppressed

The bars pool all 40 contributed games across every completed puzzle. The Observatory does not publish per-puzzle guess distributions below its sample threshold, so this is the broadest available comparison. “Suppressed” marks a low-count cell.

Solver replay

One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to BLIMP.

The solver reaches the answer in 3 guesses.

Common questions

What was the Wordle answer for April 14, 2024?
The Wordle answer for April 14, 2024 (puzzle #1030) was BLIMP.
What does BLIMP mean?
BLIMP: An airship constructed with a nonrigid lifting agent container.
Why was Wordle #1030 tricky?
BLIMP is rated tricky for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: uncommon in general English, only one vowel.

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