Wordle #116 Answer
October 13, 2021 · Wednesday
The answer to Wordle #116 was
DOWRY: Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
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Why it may be difficult: uncommon letters, only one vowel.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #116 scores 45/100 for solver difficulty (middle of the pack).
This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →
Wordle #116, measured
This section compares DOWRY'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, DOWRY measured harder for the solver than about 45% of all 1,906 recorded answers to date. Its rating is middle of the pack. CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave a large group; it has a 3-word DOW_Y family.
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 20 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, SLATE left 229 candidates, about 11 times as many. SALET and SLATE came back all gray. None of their letters appear in DOWRY.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| STARE | STARE | 20 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 36 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 43 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 65 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 66 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 91 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 95 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 103 |
| SALET | SALET | 229 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 229 |
“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 DOWRY → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to DOWRY.
The solver reaches the answer in 3 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for October 13, 2021?
- The Wordle answer for October 13, 2021 (puzzle #116) was DOWRY.
- What does DOWRY mean?
- DOWRY: Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
- Why was Wordle #116 tricky?
- DOWRY is rated tricky for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: uncommon letters, only one vowel.