Wordle #966 Answer
February 10, 2024 · Saturday
The answer to Wordle #966 was
FRIED: simple past and past participle of fry
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Why it may be easier: five different letters, at least two vowels and none of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #966 scores 93/100 for solver difficulty (hard for the solver).
This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →
Wordle #966, measured
This section compares FRIED'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, FRIED measured harder for the solver than about 93% of all 1,906 recorded answers to date. Its rating is hard for the solver. The example solver route takes 5 turns; CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave about 67 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.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 9 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 9 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 12 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 19 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 22 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 49 |
| SALET | SALET | 108 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 116 |
| 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
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 FRIED → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to FRIED.
The solver reaches the answer in 5 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for February 10, 2024?
- The Wordle answer for February 10, 2024 (puzzle #966) was FRIED.
- What does FRIED mean?
- FRIED: simple past and past participle of fry
- Why was Wordle #966 tricky?
- FRIED 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.