The answer to Wordle #646 was

GUANO: Dung from a sea bird or from a bat.

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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 #646 scores 1/100 for solver difficulty (easier for the solver).

17 Possible answers after CRANE
49 Possible answers after SLATE
39 Possible answers after ADIEU
2 Guesses in the solver replay

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Wordle #646, measured

This section compares GUANO'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

1/100

This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, GUANO measured harder for the solver than about 1% of all 1,906 recorded answers to date. Its rating is easier for the solver. The opener groups are small and the example solver route is short.

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 1 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, ARISE left 159 candidates, about 159 times as many.

First-guess feedback each opener would have received against GUANO, and how many answer-pool words would still match it
OpenerFirst-guess feedbackAnswers still possible
AUDIO AUDIO 1
CRANE CRANE 17
STARE STARE 38
ADIEU ADIEU 39
SLATE SLATE 49
TRACE TRACE 51
RAISE RAISE 96
TARSE TARSE 101
SALET SALET 104
ARISE ARISE 159

“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 GUANO.

The solver reaches the answer in 2 guesses.

Common questions

What was the Wordle answer for March 27, 2023?
The Wordle answer for March 27, 2023 (puzzle #646) was GUANO.
What does GUANO mean?
GUANO: Dung from a sea bird or from a bat.
Why was Wordle #646 tricky?
GUANO is rated tricky for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: uncommon in general English.

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