Wordle #844 Answer
October 11, 2023 · Wednesday
The answer to Wordle #844 was
SKUNK: Any of various small mammals, of most genera of the family Mephitidae, native to North and Central America, having a glossy black coat with white markings and two musk glands at the base of the tail for emitting a noxious smell as a defensive measure.
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Why it may be difficult: a repeated letter, uncommon letters, only one vowel.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #844 scores 52/100 for solver difficulty (middle of the pack).
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Wordle #844, measured
This section compares SKUNK'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, SKUNK measured harder for the solver than about 52% of all 1,906 recorded answers to date. Its rating is middle of the pack. It repeats K; 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 58 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, TRACE left 255 candidates, about 4 times as many. TRACE came back all gray. None of its letters appear in SKUNK. The vowel-heavy probes ADIEU and AUDIO revealed comparatively little here. Vowel coverage helps only when the answer's vowels are still in doubt.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| CRANE | CRANE | 58 |
| SALET | SALET | 58 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 58 |
| STARE | STARE | 70 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 81 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 81 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 87 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 110 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 193 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 255 |
“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 SKUNK → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to SKUNK.
The solver reaches the answer in 3 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for October 11, 2023?
- The Wordle answer for October 11, 2023 (puzzle #844) was SKUNK.
- What does SKUNK mean?
- SKUNK: Any of various small mammals, of most genera of the family Mephitidae, native to North and Central America, having a glossy black coat with white markings and two musk glands at the base of the tail for emitting a noxious smell as a defensive measure.
- Why was Wordle #844 tricky?
- SKUNK is rated hard for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: a repeated letter, uncommon letters, only one vowel.