Wordle #641 hints & answer for March 22, 2023
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Hints for Wordle #641
What kind of word
Wiktionary lists it as a noun.
Fill the gap
“He pulled the thick _____ over his head to block out the morning light.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentence selected from Wiktionary, with the answer removed.
How it ends
Ends in T.
How it starts
Begins with D.
The middle letter
The middle letter is V.
Reveal the answer and explanation
The answer to Wordle #641 was
DUVET: A quilt or usually flat cloth bag with a filling (traditionally down) and usually an additional washable cover, used instead of blankets; often called a comforter or quilt, especially in US English.
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, uncommon letters.
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: 18/100 (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 #641, measured
This section compares DUVET'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, DUVET measured harder for the solver than about 18% of all 1,952 recorded answers to date. Its rating is easier for the solver. CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave about 70 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
ADIEU left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 7 of the 2,384 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, CRANE left 130 candidates, about 19 times as many.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 7 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 11 |
| SALET | SALET | 13 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 43 |
| STARE | STARE | 56 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 59 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 73 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 124 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 124 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 130 |
“Answers still possible” counts the words in the site's 2,384-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 DUVET → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to DUVET.
The solver reaches the answer in 3 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for March 22, 2023?
- The Wordle answer for March 22, 2023 (puzzle #641) was DUVET.
- What does DUVET mean?
- DUVET: A quilt or usually flat cloth bag with a filling (traditionally down) and usually an additional washable cover, used instead of blankets; often called a comforter or quilt, especially in US English.
- Why was Wordle #641 tricky?
- DUVET is rated tricky for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: uncommon in general English, uncommon letters.