Wordle #286 Answer
April 1, 2022 · Friday
The answer to Wordle #286 was
SNOUT: The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
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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 #286 scores 44/100 for solver difficulty (middle of the pack).
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Wordle #286, measured
This section compares SNOUT'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, SNOUT measured harder for the solver than about 44% of all 1,907 recorded answers to date. Its rating is middle of the pack. CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave a large group; it sits in a 5-word S_OUT 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
STARE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 18 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, ADIEU left 193 candidates, about 11 times as many.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| STARE | STARE | 18 |
| SALET | SALET | 19 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 39 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 47 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 53 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 57 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 81 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 81 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 115 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 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
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 SNOUT → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to SNOUT.
The solver reaches the answer in 3 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for April 1, 2022?
- The Wordle answer for April 1, 2022 (puzzle #286) was SNOUT.
- What does SNOUT mean?
- SNOUT: The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
- Why was Wordle #286 tricky?
- SNOUT 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.