Wordle #12 Answer
July 1, 2021 · Thursday
The answer to Wordle #12 was
MODEL: A person who serves as a human template for artwork or fashion.
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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 #12 scores 57/100 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 #12, measured
This section compares MODEL'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, MODEL measured harder for the solver than about 57% of all 1,906 recorded answers to date. Its rating is middle of the pack. The example solver route takes four turns; CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave about 71.7 possible answers.
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 13 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, CRANE left 128 candidates, about 10 times as many.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 13 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 24 |
| SALET | SALET | 44 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 63 |
| STARE | STARE | 119 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 119 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 123 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 123 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 126 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 128 |
“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 MODEL → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to MODEL.
The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for July 1, 2021?
- The Wordle answer for July 1, 2021 (puzzle #12) was MODEL.
- What does MODEL mean?
- MODEL: A person who serves as a human template for artwork or fashion.
- Why was Wordle #12 tricky?
- MODEL 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.