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Hints for Wordle #783

What kind of word

Wiktionary lists it as an interjection, and also as a noun.

What it means

“A greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence.”

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

Fill the gap

“They gave each other a quick _____ when they met, and went back on their merry ways.”

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentence selected from Wiktionary, with the answer removed.

How it starts

Begins with H.

How it ends

Ends in O.

Reveal the answer and explanation

The answer to Wordle #783 was

HELLO: A greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence.

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

Word difficulty: Moderate

Why it may be difficult: a repeated letter.

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.

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How difficult was it for the solver?

Solver pressure: 88/100 (tricky). This is a percentile among past puzzles under the same strategy: 0 is easiest and 100 is hardest for the solver.

130 Possible answers after CRANE
64 Possible answers after SLATE
201 Possible answers after ADIEU
4 Guesses in the solver replay

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Wordle #783, measured

This section compares HELLO'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

88/100

This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, HELLO measured harder for the solver than about 88% of all 1,952 recorded answers to date. Its rating is tricky. It repeats L; 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

AUDIO left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 13 of the 2,384 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, ADIEU left 201 candidates, about 15 times as many.

First-guess feedback each opener would have received against HELLO, and how many answer-pool words would still match it
OpenerFirst-guess feedbackAnswers still possible
AUDIO AUDIO 13
SALET SALET 16
SLATE SLATE 64
STARE STARE 120
TARSE TARSE 120
ARISE ARISE 124
RAISE RAISE 124
TRACE TRACE 128
CRANE CRANE 130
ADIEU ADIEU 201

“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 →

What did you get?

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1 Suppressed
2 Suppressed
3 12
4 10
5 Suppressed
6 Suppressed
X Suppressed

The bars pool all 40 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 HELLO.

The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.

Common questions

What was the Wordle answer for August 11, 2023?
The Wordle answer for August 11, 2023 (puzzle #783) was HELLO.
What does HELLO mean?
HELLO: A greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence.
Why was Wordle #783 tricky?
HELLO is rated moderate for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: a repeated letter.

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