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This list has 6 Wordle guesses; 3 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 3 answers. Possible-answer status helps narrow a puzzle, but does not predict which word Wordle will choose.

Past Wordle answers: GAUGE (October 25, 2025); GOUGE (October 30, 2021); ROUGE (November 22, 2021).

Top-ranked splitter GAUGE
Average remaining
1.0
Worst branch
1
Information
1.58 bits

It fits this list and can win immediately, while still splitting the alternatives well.

Hard Mode GAUGE keeps every stated clue.

It is legal under the clues represented on this page. If you also know where a yellow letter cannot go, check that extra detail in the full Solver.

No obvious one-slot trap. The possible answers do not form a three-word-or-larger family that differs in only one position.

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Word notes

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GAUGE

A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard

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Past Wordle answer: October 25, 2025.

GOUGE

Senses relating to cutting tools.

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Past Wordle answer: October 30, 2021.

ROUGE

Of a reddish pink colour.

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Past Wordle answer: November 22, 2021.

BOUGE

To swell out.

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Not found among the past answers in this archive.

KLUGE

Something that should not work, but does.

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VOUGE

Alternative form of voulge.

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Not found among the past answers in this archive.

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