The answer to Wordle #403 was

MOTTO: A personal slogan.

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Word difficulty: Tricky

Why it may be difficult: repeated letters.

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How difficult was it for the solver?

In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #403 scores 70/100 for solver difficulty (tricky).

273 Possible answers after CRANE
38 Possible answers after SLATE
165 Possible answers after ADIEU
3 Guesses in the solver replay

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Wordle #403, measured

This section compares MOTTO'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

70/100

This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, MOTTO measured harder for the solver than about 70% of all 1,906 recorded answers to date. Its rating is tricky. It repeats O, T; 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

AUDIO left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 13 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, CRANE left 273 candidates, about 21 times as many. ADIEU, ARISE, RAISE and CRANE came back all gray. None of their letters appear in MOTTO.

First-guess feedback each opener would have received against MOTTO, and how many answer-pool words would still match it
OpenerFirst-guess feedbackAnswers still possible
AUDIO AUDIO 13
SLATE SLATE 38
TARSE TARSE 81
SALET SALET 88
STARE STARE 102
TRACE TRACE 115
ADIEU ADIEU 165
ARISE ARISE 174
RAISE RAISE 174
CRANE CRANE 273

“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

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 MOTTO.

The solver reaches the answer in 3 guesses.

Common questions

What was the Wordle answer for July 27, 2022?
The Wordle answer for July 27, 2022 (puzzle #403) was MOTTO.
What does MOTTO mean?
MOTTO: A personal slogan.
Why was Wordle #403 tricky?
MOTTO is rated tricky for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: repeated letters.

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