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ADEPT

Yes, ADEPT was the Wordle answer on May 1, 2025 (Wordle #1412).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈdɛpt//ˈæd.ɛpt//ædˈɛpt/

Adjective

Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.

Noun

One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient

“adepts in philosophy”

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: May 1, 2025 (#1412).

See the full page for that puzzle: May 1, 2025 (#1412).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How ADEPT performs as a guess

ADEPT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 86.6% of games, misses completely in 13.4%, and leaves about 138 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,688 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

A___T A in the 1st position and T in the 5th position A__P_ A in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _D__T D in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in ADEPT.

First-turn measures

All four describe ADEPT used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.92 Entropy (bits)
138 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 79% of evaluated openers
1.03 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ADEPT performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,688 Rank among openers
Opening with ADEPT left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,688 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
910
4 guesses
1,158
5 guesses
200
6 guesses
13
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
24%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S P L A T
A D E P T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ADEPT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

ADEPT can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

319 answers
282 answers
239 answers
139 answers
107 answers
85 answers
84 answers
82 answers
77 answers
70 answers
68 answers
59 answers
53 answers
50 answers
46 answers
43 answers
41 answers
36 answers
33 answers
28 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for ADEPT; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

A1D2E1P3T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.

Try next

SOILY RIONE CAROL LARGE NORTH NOIRE

Strategy after playing ADEPT

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to ADEPT.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ADEPT:

13% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
12% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
10% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

13.4% →
SOILY 5.66 bits
11.9% →
RIONE 5.27 bits
10.1% →
CAROL 5.31 bits
5.9% →
LARGE 4.87 bits
4.5% →
NORTH 5.03 bits
3.6% →
NOIRE 4.57 bits
3.5% →
ROUND 4.90 bits
3.5% →
DINER 4.93 bits
3.2% →
SIREN 4.44 bits
2.9% →
SATIN 4.19 bits

Research on ADEPT

Game-tree analysis and word research for ADEPT, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with ADEPT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,511 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with ADEPT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it UHDEHPT.

Rhymes with SLEPT SWEPT CREPT INEPT LEAPT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ADEPT is a kind of expert.

Synonyms good star champion expert genius ace

Opposites unskilled

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ADEPT sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.3 of 5).

In a sentence

He's really getting adept at that.
© tatoeba.org contributor Eccles17 (CC BY 2.0 FR)
He is adept in swimming.
© tatoeba.org contributor rul (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).