The answer to Wordle #1,444 was

PREEN: A forked tool used by clothiers for dressing cloth.

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Word difficulty: Hard

Why it may be difficult: very uncommon in general English, a repeated letter.

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How difficult was it for the solver?

In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #1,444 scores 77/100 for solver difficulty (tricky).

2 Possible answers after CRANE
170 Possible answers after SLATE
128 Possible answers after ADIEU
4 Guesses in the solver replay

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Wordle #1,444, measured

This section compares PREEN'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

77/100

This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, PREEN measured harder for the solver than about 77% of all 1,907 recorded answers to date. Its rating is tricky. It repeats E; the example solver route takes four turns.

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

CRANE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 2 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, AUDIO left 193 candidates, about 96 times as many. AUDIO came back all gray. None of its letters appear in PREEN. The vowel-heavy probes ADIEU and AUDIO revealed comparatively little here. Vowel coverage helps only when the answer's vowels are still in doubt.

First-guess feedback each opener would have received against PREEN, and how many answer-pool words would still match it
OpenerFirst-guess feedbackAnswers still possible
CRANE CRANE 2
TRACE TRACE 19
ARISE ARISE 22
RAISE RAISE 104
SALET SALET 108
TARSE TARSE 116
STARE STARE 122
ADIEU ADIEU 128
SLATE SLATE 170
AUDIO AUDIO 193

“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

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1 Suppressed
2 Suppressed
3 Suppressed
4 Suppressed
5 Suppressed
6 Suppressed
X Suppressed

The bars pool all 26 contributed games across every completed puzzle. The Observatory does not publish per-puzzle guess distributions below its sample threshold, so this is the broadest available comparison. “Suppressed” marks a low-count cell.

Solver replay

One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to PREEN.

The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.

Common questions

What was the Wordle answer for June 2, 2025?
The Wordle answer for June 2, 2025 (puzzle #1444) was PREEN.
What does PREEN mean?
PREEN: A forked tool used by clothiers for dressing cloth.
Why was Wordle #1444 tricky?
PREEN is rated hard for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: very uncommon in general English, a repeated letter.

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