Wordle #391 hints & answer for July 15, 2022
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Hints for Wordle #391
What kind of word
Wiktionary lists it as a noun.
What it means
“To force into a narrow gap.”
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Fill the gap
“Stick a _____ under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.”
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How it starts
Begins with W.
The middle letter
The middle letter is D.
Reveal the answer and explanation
The answer to Wordle #391 was
WEDGE: One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
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: a repeated letter, uncommon letters.
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: 74/100 (tricky). 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 #391, measured
This section compares WEDGE'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, WEDGE measured harder for the solver than about 74% of all 1,952 recorded answers to date. Its rating is tricky. It repeats E; the example solver route takes four 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
AUDIO 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, SALET left 173 candidates, about 35 times as many.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 5 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 34 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 63 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 63 |
| STARE | STARE | 91 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 91 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 106 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 109 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 111 |
| SALET | SALET | 173 |
“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 WEDGE → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to WEDGE.
The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for July 15, 2022?
- The Wordle answer for July 15, 2022 (puzzle #391) was WEDGE.
- What does WEDGE mean?
- WEDGE: One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
- Why was Wordle #391 tricky?
- WEDGE is rated tricky for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: a repeated letter, uncommon letters.