Wordle #914 Answer
December 20, 2023 · Wednesday
The answer to Wordle #914 was
SMALL: Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
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Why it may be difficult: a repeated letter, only one vowel.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #914 scores 86/100 for solver difficulty (tricky).
This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →
Wordle #914, measured
This section compares SMALL'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, SMALL measured harder for the solver than about 86% of all 1,907 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
SLATE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 8 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, AUDIO left 442 candidates, about 55 times as many. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SLATE | SLATE | 8 |
| SALET | SALET | 13 |
| STARE | STARE | 28 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 35 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 46 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 50 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 51 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 63 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 289 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 442 |
“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 SMALL → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to SMALL.
The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for December 20, 2023?
- The Wordle answer for December 20, 2023 (puzzle #914) was SMALL.
- What does SMALL mean?
- SMALL: Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
- Why was Wordle #914 tricky?
- SMALL is rated tricky for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: a repeated letter, only one vowel.