Wordle #11 Answer
June 30, 2021 · Wednesday
The answer to Wordle #11 was
DWARF: Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
Why it may be difficult: uncommon letters, only one vowel.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #11 scores 32/100 for solver difficulty (easier for the solver).
This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →
Wordle #11, measured
This section compares DWARF'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
This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, DWARF measured harder for the solver than about 32% of all 1,906 recorded answers to date. Its rating is easier for the solver. The example solver route takes four turns.
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
STARE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 12 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, SALET left 104 candidates, about 9 times as many.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| STARE | STARE | 12 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 17 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 24 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 44 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 49 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 54 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 64 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 71 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 79 |
| SALET | SALET | 104 |
“Answers still possible” counts the words in the site's 2,374-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 →
See the solver's route to DWARF → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to DWARF.
The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for June 30, 2021?
- The Wordle answer for June 30, 2021 (puzzle #11) was DWARF.
- What does DWARF mean?
- DWARF: Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.
- Why was Wordle #11 tricky?
- DWARF is rated tricky for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: uncommon letters, only one vowel.