Wordle #1,262 Answer
December 2, 2024 · Monday
The answer to Wordle #1,262 was
GUILE: Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
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Why it may be difficult: uncommon in general English.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #1,262 scores 10/100 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 #1,262, measured
This section compares GUILE'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, GUILE measured harder for the solver than about 10% of all 1,907 recorded answers to date. Its rating is easier for the solver. CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave about 44.7 possible answers; it has a 3-word GUI_E 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
ADIEU left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 8 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, TRACE left 108 candidates, about 14 times as many.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 8 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 16 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 21 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 24 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 24 |
| SALET | SALET | 50 |
| STARE | STARE | 90 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 90 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 105 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 108 |
“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 GUILE → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to GUILE.
The solver reaches the answer in 3 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for December 2, 2024?
- The Wordle answer for December 2, 2024 (puzzle #1262) was GUILE.
- What does GUILE mean?
- GUILE: Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
- Why was Wordle #1262 tricky?
- GUILE is rated tricky for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: uncommon in general English.