Wordle #115 answer: THUMB
Played on 10-12-2021 · difficulty 4/5
What was the Wordle answer for #115?
The answer to Wordle #115, played on 10-12-2021, was THUMB.
THUMB has been the answer more than once. The New York Times also used it on 06-07-2026. Repeats began on 2 February 2026 — before that, no answer had ever been reused.
How the solver gets there
Starting from all 2,380 possible answers, this is the run an optimal solver makes against THUMB. Every guess is the one that splits the remaining field most evenly — the last column is how many answers were still standing after it.
| Turn | Guess | Feedback | Answers left |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SALET | SALET | 89 |
| 2 | NORTH | NORTH | 5 |
| 3 | PITHY | PITHY | 1 |
| 4 | THUMB | THUMB | — |
At that point the clues could not separate ITCHY, PITHY, THICK, THUMB and THUMP.
How hard was it?
Optimal play solves it in 4 guesses.
After the opening guess SALET, 89 of the 2,380 possible answers were still standing — about average.
Hints, if you would rather work it out
There is one vowel. It is U. It begins with T. No letter repeats.