Wordle #397 Answer
July 21, 2022 · Thursday
The answer to Wordle #397 was
APHID: A sap-sucking insect pest of the superfamily Aphidoidea; an aphidian.
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Why it may be difficult: very uncommon in general English.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #397 scores 69/100 for solver difficulty (tricky).
This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →
Wordle #397, measured
This section compares APHID'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, APHID measured harder for the solver than about 69% of all 1,906 recorded answers to date. Its rating is tricky. The example solver route takes four turns; CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave a large group.
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
ADIEU left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 3 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, CRANE left 141 candidates, about 47 times as many.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 3 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 4 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 13 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 34 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 101 |
| SALET | SALET | 104 |
| STARE | STARE | 131 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 133 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 140 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 141 |
“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 APHID → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to APHID.
The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for July 21, 2022?
- The Wordle answer for July 21, 2022 (puzzle #397) was APHID.
- What does APHID mean?
- APHID: A sap-sucking insect pest of the superfamily Aphidoidea; an aphidian.
- Why was Wordle #397 tricky?
- APHID is rated hard for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: very uncommon in general English.