Wordle #716 Answer
June 5, 2023 · Monday
The answer to Wordle #716 was
ENNUI: A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.
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Why it may be difficult: very uncommon in general English, a repeated letter.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #716 scores 69/100 for solver difficulty (tricky).
This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →
Wordle #716, measured
This section compares ENNUI'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, ENNUI measured harder for the solver than about 69% of all 1,907 recorded answers to date. Its rating is tricky. It repeats N; the example solver route takes four turns.
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 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, SALET left 172 candidates, about 25 times as many.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 7 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 15 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 38 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 38 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 62 |
| STARE | STARE | 119 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 119 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 126 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 170 |
| SALET | SALET | 172 |
“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 ENNUI → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to ENNUI.
The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for June 5, 2023?
- The Wordle answer for June 5, 2023 (puzzle #716) was ENNUI.
- What does ENNUI mean?
- ENNUI: A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.
- Why was Wordle #716 tricky?
- ENNUI is rated hard for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: very uncommon in general English, a repeated letter.