Wordle #230 hints & answer for February 4, 2022
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Hints for Wordle #230
What kind of word
Wiktionary lists it as a noun.
What it means
“A similar fold in a filter, lampshade, or various other products.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
Where the vowels sit
The vowels are the third and fourth letters.
The middle letter
The middle letter is E.
How it starts
Begins with P.
Reveal the answer and explanation
The answer to Wordle #230 was
PLEAT: A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance.
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
Why it may be difficult: very uncommon in general English.
The word rating describes familiarity and letter features. The solver score below measures how a fixed strategy handles the puzzle; an unusual word can still be easy for that strategy.
How difficult was it for the solver?
Solver pressure: 28/100 (easier for the solver). This is a percentile among past puzzles under the same strategy: 0 is easiest and 100 is hardest for the solver.
This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →
Wordle #230, measured
This section compares PLEAT'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, PLEAT measured harder for the solver than about 28% of all 1,952 recorded answers to date. Its rating is easier for the solver. CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave a large group; it has a 3-word _LEAT 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
SLATE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 5 of the 2,384 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, AUDIO left 443 candidates, about 89 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SLATE | SLATE | 5 |
| SALET | SALET | 8 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 19 |
| STARE | STARE | 21 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 24 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 46 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 70 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 82 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 190 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 443 |
“Answers still possible” counts the words in the site's 2,384-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 PLEAT → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to PLEAT.
The solver reaches the answer in 3 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for February 4, 2022?
- The Wordle answer for February 4, 2022 (puzzle #230) was PLEAT.
- What does PLEAT mean?
- PLEAT: A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance.
- Why was Wordle #230 tricky?
- PLEAT is rated hard for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: very uncommon in general English.