Wordle #1,475 Answer
July 3, 2025 · Thursday
The answer to Wordle #1,475 was
POPPY: Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially a common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.
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Why it may be difficult: repeated letters, only one vowel.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #1,475 scores 100/100 for solver difficulty (hard for the solver).
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Wordle #1,475, measured
This section compares POPPY'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, POPPY measured harder for the solver than about 100% of all 1,906 recorded answers to date. Its rating is hard for the solver. It repeats P; the example solver route takes 5 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
ADIEU left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 165 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, AUDIO left 286 candidates. ADIEU, ARISE, RAISE, SALET, SLATE, STARE, TARSE, TRACE and CRANE came back all gray. None of their letters appear in POPPY.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 165 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 174 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 174 |
| SALET | SALET | 229 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 229 |
| STARE | STARE | 235 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 235 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 255 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 273 |
| 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 POPPY → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to POPPY.
The solver reaches the answer in 5 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for July 3, 2025?
- The Wordle answer for July 3, 2025 (puzzle #1475) was POPPY.
- What does POPPY mean?
- POPPY: Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially a common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.
- Why was Wordle #1475 tricky?
- POPPY is rated hard for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: repeated letters, only one vowel.