The answer to Wordle #4 was

AWAKE: Not asleep; conscious.

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: a repeated letter, uncommon letters.

Compare past puzzle difficulty →

How difficult was it for the solver?

In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #4 scores 32/100 for solver difficulty (easier for the solver).

45 Possible answers after CRANE
28 Possible answers after SLATE
22 Possible answers after ADIEU
4 Guesses in the solver replay

This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →

Wordle #4, measured

This section compares AWAKE'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

32/100

This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, AWAKE measured harder for the solver than about 32% of all 1,907 recorded answers to date. Its rating is easier for the solver. It repeats A; 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

ARISE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 20 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, SALET left 83 candidates, about 4 times as many.

First-guess feedback each opener would have received against AWAKE, and how many answer-pool words would still match it
OpenerFirst-guess feedbackAnswers still possible
ARISE ARISE 20
ADIEU ADIEU 22
STARE STARE 24
SLATE SLATE 28
TRACE TRACE 35
RAISE RAISE 41
TARSE TARSE 41
CRANE CRANE 45
AUDIO AUDIO 49
SALET SALET 83

“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 →

What did you get?

Tap your result to compare it with contributed games. Your choice stays in this browser and is not sent anywhere.

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

The bars pool all 26 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 AWAKE.

The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.

Common questions

What was the Wordle answer for June 23, 2021?
The Wordle answer for June 23, 2021 (puzzle #4) was AWAKE.
What does AWAKE mean?
AWAKE: Not asleep; conscious.
Why was Wordle #4 tricky?
AWAKE is rated hard for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: a repeated letter, uncommon letters.

Keep solving and playing