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ADORE

Yes, ADORE was the Wordle answer on December 4, 2022 (Wordle #533).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈdɔː//əˈdoɹ//əˈdo(ː)ɹ/

Verb

To worship.

Verb

To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.

“It is obvious to everyone that Gerry adores Heather.”

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: December 4, 2022 (#533).

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

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How ADORE performs as a guess

ADORE 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 89.5% of games, misses completely in 10.5%, and leaves about 92 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,467 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___E A in the 1st position and E in the 5th position A__R_ A in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _D__E D in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ADORE 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.

5.43 Entropy (bits)
92 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 98% of evaluated openers
0.52 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ADORE 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#1,467 Rank among openers
Opening with ADORE left 1 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 3.61 average. It ranks #1,467 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
958
4 guesses
1,129
5 guesses
176
6 guesses
11
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
3 vowels
Common:
AEOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
34%
All gray
10%

Example solver route

R O A T E
A D O R E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ADORE in 2 guesses.

Feedback distribution

ADORE can come back 115 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

249 answers
213 answers
136 answers
119 answers
101 answers
90 answers
84 answers
79 answers
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73 answers
59 answers
52 answers
43 answers
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Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1D2O1R1E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

SPILT SLANT SLEET MOULT SIENT SAULT

Strategy after playing ADORE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ADORE:

10% chance
Suggested:
SPILT
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
6% chance
Suggested:
SLEET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.5% →
SPILT 5.56 bits
9.0% →
SLANT 5.29 bits
5.7% →
SLEET 5.48 bits
5.0% →
SLEET 4.36 bits
4.3% →
MOULT 4.56 bits
3.8% →
SIENT 4.60 bits
3.5% →
SAULT 4.60 bits
3.3% →
LEANT 4.60 bits
3.3% →
SAINT 4.28 bits
3.1% →
CRUST 4.83 bits

Research on ADORE

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

Optimal play

Opening with ADORE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,310 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 ADORE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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 UHDAWR.

Rhymes with STORE FLOOR SCORE SHORE CORPS

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ADORE is a kind of love.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ADORE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 5 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 39 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with internal bodily sensation (3.2 of 5).

In a sentence

I adore him so much.
© tatoeba.org contributor Nuel (CC BY 2.0 FR)
He's the man I adore.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).