Wordle #5 Answer
June 24, 2021 · Thursday
The answer to Wordle #5 was
BLUSH: An act of blushing; a pink or red glow on the face caused by embarrassment, shame, shyness, love, etc.
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Why it may be difficult: only one vowel.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #5 scores 91/100 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 #5, measured
This section compares BLUSH'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, BLUSH measured harder for the solver than about 91% of all 1,907 recorded answers to date. Its rating is hard for the solver. 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
SLATE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 6 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, CRANE left 273 candidates, about 46 times as many. TRACE and CRANE came back all gray. None of their letters appear in BLUSH. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SLATE | SLATE | 6 |
| SALET | SALET | 10 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 17 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 17 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 22 |
| STARE | STARE | 39 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 110 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 193 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 255 |
| 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
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 BLUSH → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to BLUSH.
The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for June 24, 2021?
- The Wordle answer for June 24, 2021 (puzzle #5) was BLUSH.
- What does BLUSH mean?
- BLUSH: An act of blushing; a pink or red glow on the face caused by embarrassment, shame, shyness, love, etc.
- Why was Wordle #5 tricky?
- BLUSH is rated moderate for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: only one vowel.