Wordle #122 Answer
October 19, 2021 · Tuesday
The answer to Wordle #122 was
COMET: A small Solar System body consisting mainly of volatile ice, dust and particles of rock whose very eccentric solar orbit periodically brings it close enough to the Sun that the ice vaporises to form an atmosphere, or coma, which may be blown by the solar wind to produce a visible tail.
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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 #122 scores 19/100 for solver difficulty (easier for the solver).
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Wordle #122, measured
This section compares COMET'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, COMET measured harder for the solver than about 19% of all 1,907 recorded answers to date. Its rating is easier for the solver. CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave about 70.7 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
TRACE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 7 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, AUDIO left 286 candidates, about 41 times as many. The vowel-heavy probes ADIEU and AUDIO revealed comparatively little here. Vowel coverage helps only when the answer's vowels are still in doubt.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| TRACE | TRACE | 7 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 11 |
| SALET | SALET | 13 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 43 |
| STARE | STARE | 56 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 73 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 123 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 123 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 128 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 286 |
“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 COMET → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to COMET.
The solver reaches the answer in 3 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for October 19, 2021?
- The Wordle answer for October 19, 2021 (puzzle #122) was COMET.
- What does COMET mean?
- COMET: A small Solar System body consisting mainly of volatile ice, dust and particles of rock whose very eccentric solar orbit periodically brings it close enough to the Sun that the ice vaporises to form an atmosphere, or coma, which may be blown by the solar wind to produce a visible tail.
- Why was Wordle #122 tricky?
- COMET 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.