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Hints for Wordle #921

What kind of word

Wiktionary lists it as a noun.

A broad clue

A plant.

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Broad category selected from the dictionary definition.

What it means

“A wild flowering plant of species Bellis perennis of the family Asteraceae, with a yellow head and white petals.”

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

Where the vowels sit

The vowels are the second and third letters.

How it starts

Begins with D.

Reveal the answer and explanation

The answer to Wordle #921 was

DAISY: A wild flowering plant of species Bellis perennis of the family Asteraceae, with a yellow head and white petals

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

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.

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: 49/100 (middle of the pack). This is a percentile among past puzzles under the same strategy: 0 is easiest and 100 is hardest for the solver.

141 Possible answers after CRANE
17 Possible answers after SLATE
4 Possible answers after ADIEU
3 Words in the DAI_Y family
4 Guesses in the solver replay

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Wordle #921, measured

This section compares DAISY'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

49/100

This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, DAISY measured harder for the solver than about 49% of all 1,952 recorded answers to date. Its rating is middle of the pack. The example solver route takes four turns; CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave about 54 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

ARISE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 2 of the 2,384 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, CRANE left 141 candidates, about 70 times as many.

First-guess feedback each opener would have received against DAISY, and how many answer-pool words would still match it
OpenerFirst-guess feedbackAnswers still possible
ARISE ARISE 2
RAISE RAISE 2
ADIEU ADIEU 4
AUDIO AUDIO 6
TARSE TARSE 8
SALET SALET 11
SLATE SLATE 17
STARE STARE 20
TRACE TRACE 133
CRANE CRANE 141

“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?

Tap your result to compare it with contributed games. Your choice stays in this browser and is not sent anywhere.

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 DAISY.

The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.

Common questions

What was the Wordle answer for December 27, 2023?
The Wordle answer for December 27, 2023 (puzzle #921) was DAISY.
What does DAISY mean?
DAISY: A wild flowering plant of species Bellis perennis of the family Asteraceae, with a yellow head and white petals
Why was Wordle #921 tricky?
DAISY 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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