Wordle #454 Answer
September 16, 2022 · Friday
The answer to Wordle #454 was
PARER: A tool used to pare things.
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Why it may be difficult: extremely rare in general English, a repeated letter.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #454 scores 92/100 for solver difficulty (hard for the solver).
This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →
Wordle #454, measured
This section compares PARER'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, PARER measured harder for the solver than about 92% of all 1,907 recorded answers to date. Its rating is hard for the solver. It repeats R; 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 4 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, AUDIO left 442 candidates, about 110 times as many. The vowel-heavy probes ADIEU and AUDIO revealed comparatively little here. Vowel coverage helps only when the answer's vowels are still in doubt.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| TARSE | TARSE | 4 |
| SALET | SALET | 26 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 28 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 42 |
| STARE | STARE | 47 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 52 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 55 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 61 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 63 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 442 |
“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 PARER → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to PARER.
The solver reaches the answer in 5 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for September 16, 2022?
- The Wordle answer for September 16, 2022 (puzzle #454) was PARER.
- What does PARER mean?
- PARER: A tool used to pare things.
- Why was Wordle #454 tricky?
- PARER is rated brutal for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: extremely rare in general English, a repeated letter.