The answer to Wordle #740 was

DINER: Someone who dines.

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Word difficulty: Easy

Why it may be easier: five different letters, at least two vowels and none of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.

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How difficult was it for the solver?

In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #740 scores 62/100 for solver difficulty (middle of the pack).

28 Possible answers after CRANE
170 Possible answers after SLATE
9 Possible answers after ADIEU
4 Words in the _INER family
4 Guesses in the solver replay

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Wordle #740, measured

This section compares DINER'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

62/100

This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, DINER measured harder for the solver than about 62% of all 1,907 recorded answers to date. Its rating is middle of the pack. The example solver route takes four turns; CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave about 69 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 9 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, SLATE left 170 candidates, about 19 times as many.

First-guess feedback each opener would have received against DINER, and how many answer-pool words would still match it
OpenerFirst-guess feedbackAnswers still possible
ADIEU ADIEU 9
RAISE RAISE 27
CRANE CRANE 28
ARISE ARISE 36
AUDIO AUDIO 49
SALET SALET 108
TARSE TARSE 116
TRACE TRACE 118
STARE STARE 122
SLATE SLATE 170

“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 DINER.

The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.

Common questions

What was the Wordle answer for June 29, 2023?
The Wordle answer for June 29, 2023 (puzzle #740) was DINER.
What does DINER mean?
DINER: Someone who dines.
Why was Wordle #740 tricky?
DINER is rated easy for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be easier: five different letters, at least two vowels and none of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.

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