The answer to Wordle #527 was

TEPID: Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.

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Word difficulty: Tricky

Why it may be difficult: uncommon in general English.

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How difficult was it for the solver?

In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #527 scores 57/100 for solver difficulty (middle of the pack).

128 Possible answers after CRANE
73 Possible answers after SLATE
16 Possible answers after ADIEU
4 Guesses in the solver replay

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Wordle #527, measured

This section compares TEPID'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

57/100

This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, TEPID measured harder for the solver than about 57% of all 1,907 recorded answers to date. Its rating is middle of the pack. The example solver route takes four turns; CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave about 72.3 possible answers.

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 11 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, CRANE left 128 candidates, about 12 times as many.

First-guess feedback each opener would have received against TEPID, and how many answer-pool words would still match it
OpenerFirst-guess feedbackAnswers still possible
AUDIO AUDIO 11
TARSE TARSE 14
TRACE TRACE 15
ADIEU ADIEU 16
ARISE ARISE 38
RAISE RAISE 38
SALET SALET 53
STARE STARE 56
SLATE SLATE 73
CRANE CRANE 128

“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 TEPID.

The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.

Common questions

What was the Wordle answer for November 28, 2022?
The Wordle answer for November 28, 2022 (puzzle #527) was TEPID.
What does TEPID mean?
TEPID: Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.
Why was Wordle #527 tricky?
TEPID is rated tricky for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: uncommon in general English.

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