Wordle #117 Answer
October 14, 2021 · Thursday
The answer to Wordle #117 was
OUGHT: simple past of owe
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Why it may be easier: five different letters, at least two vowels and none of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #117 scores 61/100 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 #117, measured
This section compares OUGHT'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, OUGHT measured harder for the solver than about 61% of all 1,906 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
AUDIO 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, CRANE left 273 candidates, about 23 times as many. ARISE, RAISE and CRANE came back all gray. None of their letters appear in OUGHT.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 12 |
| SALET | SALET | 40 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 81 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 90 |
| STARE | STARE | 102 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 115 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 174 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 174 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 193 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 273 |
“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 OUGHT → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to OUGHT.
The solver reaches the answer in 3 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for October 14, 2021?
- The Wordle answer for October 14, 2021 (puzzle #117) was OUGHT.
- What does OUGHT mean?
- OUGHT: simple past of owe
- Why was Wordle #117 tricky?
- OUGHT is rated easy for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be easier: five different letters, at least two vowels and none of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.