Wordle #444 Answer
September 6, 2022 · Tuesday
The answer to Wordle #444 was
TAUNT: To make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner.
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Why it may be difficult: uncommon in general English, a repeated letter.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #444 scores 85/100 for solver difficulty (tricky).
This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →
Wordle #444, measured
This section compares TAUNT'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, TAUNT measured harder for the solver than about 85% of all 1,907 recorded answers to date. Its rating is tricky. It repeats T; the example solver route takes 5 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
TARSE 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, ARISE left 159 candidates, about 12 times as many.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| TARSE | TARSE | 13 |
| SALET | SALET | 16 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 20 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 21 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 36 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 39 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 52 |
| STARE | STARE | 74 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 93 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 159 |
“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 TAUNT → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to TAUNT.
The solver reaches the answer in 5 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for September 6, 2022?
- The Wordle answer for September 6, 2022 (puzzle #444) was TAUNT.
- What does TAUNT mean?
- TAUNT: To make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner.
- Why was Wordle #444 tricky?
- TAUNT is rated tricky for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: uncommon in general English, a repeated letter.