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Hints for Wordle #371

What kind of word

Wiktionary lists it as an adjective.

What it means

“Bright and penetrating. (of eyes or a look).”

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

The middle letter

The middle letter is A.

Where the vowels sit

The vowels are the second and third letters.

How it starts

Begins with B.

Reveal the answer and explanation

The answer to Wordle #371 was

BEADY: Resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming.

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

Word difficulty: Hard

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.

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How difficult was it for the solver?

Solver pressure: 3/100 (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.

19 Possible answers after CRANE
12 Possible answers after SLATE
35 Possible answers after ADIEU
3 Words in the _EADY family
3 Guesses in the solver replay

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Wordle #371, measured

This section compares BEADY'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

3/100

This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, BEADY measured harder for the solver than about 3% of all 1,952 recorded answers to date. Its rating is easier for the solver. It has a 3-word _EADY 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

TRACE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 8 of the 2,384 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, SALET left 83 candidates, about 10 times as many.

First-guess feedback each opener would have received against BEADY, and how many answer-pool words would still match it
OpenerFirst-guess feedbackAnswers still possible
TRACE TRACE 8
STARE STARE 10
SLATE SLATE 12
CRANE CRANE 19
ADIEU ADIEU 35
TARSE TARSE 47
AUDIO AUDIO 54
RAISE RAISE 70
ARISE ARISE 82
SALET SALET 83

“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 →

What did you get?

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1 Suppressed
2 Suppressed
3 12
4 10
5 Suppressed
6 Suppressed
X Suppressed

The bars pool all 40 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 BEADY.

The solver reaches the answer in 3 guesses.

Common questions

What was the Wordle answer for June 25, 2022?
The Wordle answer for June 25, 2022 (puzzle #371) was BEADY.
What does BEADY mean?
BEADY: Resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming.
Why was Wordle #371 tricky?
BEADY is rated hard for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: very uncommon in general English.

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