Wordle #689 Answer
May 9, 2023 · Tuesday
The answer to Wordle #689 was
COCOA: The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
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Why it may be difficult: repeated letters.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #689 scores 68/100 for solver difficulty (tricky).
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Wordle #689, measured
This section compares COCOA'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, COCOA measured harder for the solver than about 68% of all 1,906 recorded answers to date. Its rating is tricky. It repeats C, O; 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
CRANE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 13 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, ADIEU left 289 candidates, about 22 times as many.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| CRANE | CRANE | 13 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 34 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 78 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 96 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 101 |
| SALET | SALET | 104 |
| STARE | STARE | 131 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 140 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 159 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 289 |
“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 COCOA → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to COCOA.
The solver reaches the answer in 3 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for May 9, 2023?
- The Wordle answer for May 9, 2023 (puzzle #689) was COCOA.
- What does COCOA mean?
- COCOA: The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
- Why was Wordle #689 tricky?
- COCOA is rated tricky for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: repeated letters.