Wordle #638 hints & answer for March 19, 2023
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Hints for Wordle #638
What kind of word
Wiktionary lists it as a noun.
What it means
“The liturgical creed (usually the Nicene Creed), or a musical arrangement of it for use in church services.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
Fill the gap
“_____ III is so beautiful!”
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentence selected from Wiktionary, with the answer removed.
Where the vowels sit
The vowels are the third and fifth letters.
How it ends
Ends in O.
Reveal the answer and explanation
The answer to Wordle #638 was
CREDO: A statement of a belief or a summary statement of a whole belief system; also (metonymically) the belief or belief system itself.
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
Why it may be difficult: uncommon in general English.
The word rating describes familiarity and letter features. The solver score below measures how a fixed strategy handles the puzzle; an unusual word can still be easy for that strategy.
How difficult was it for the solver?
Solver pressure: 19/100 (easier for the solver). This is a percentile among past puzzles under the same strategy: 0 is easiest and 100 is hardest for the solver.
This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →
Wordle #638, measured
This section compares CREDO'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, CREDO measured harder for the solver than about 19% of all 1,953 recorded answers to date. Its rating is easier for the solver. CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave about 71.3 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 2 of the 2,385 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, SALET left 173 candidates, about 86 times as many.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 2 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 8 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 10 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 22 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 34 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 104 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 116 |
| STARE | STARE | 122 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 170 |
| SALET | SALET | 173 |
“Answers still possible” counts the words in the site's 2,385-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 CREDO → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to CREDO.
The solver reaches the answer in 3 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for March 19, 2023?
- The Wordle answer for March 19, 2023 (puzzle #638) was CREDO.
- What does CREDO mean?
- CREDO: A statement of a belief or a summary statement of a whole belief system; also (metonymically) the belief or belief system itself.
- Why was Wordle #638 tricky?
- CREDO is rated tricky for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: uncommon in general English.