The answer to Wordle #390 was

LIVER: A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.

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Word difficulty: Moderate

Why it may be difficult: uncommon letters.

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How difficult was it for the solver?

In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #390 scores 67/100 for solver difficulty (tricky).

126 Possible answers after CRANE
63 Possible answers after SLATE
40 Possible answers after ADIEU
4 Words in the _IVER family
4 Guesses in the solver replay

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Wordle #390, measured

This section compares LIVER'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

67/100

This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, LIVER measured harder for the solver than about 67% of all 1,907 recorded answers to date. Its rating is tricky. The example solver route takes four turns; CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave about 76.3 possible answers.

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

RAISE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 27 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, AUDIO left 274 candidates, about 10 times as many.

First-guess feedback each opener would have received against LIVER, and how many answer-pool words would still match it
OpenerFirst-guess feedbackAnswers still possible
RAISE RAISE 27
ARISE ARISE 36
ADIEU ADIEU 40
SALET SALET 44
SLATE SLATE 63
TARSE TARSE 116
TRACE TRACE 118
STARE STARE 122
CRANE CRANE 126
AUDIO AUDIO 274

“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

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Solver replay

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

The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.

Common questions

What was the Wordle answer for July 14, 2022?
The Wordle answer for July 14, 2022 (puzzle #390) was LIVER.
What does LIVER mean?
LIVER: A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
Why was Wordle #390 tricky?
LIVER is rated moderate for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: uncommon letters.

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