ADORN
Yes, ADORN was the Wordle answer on October 18, 2026 (Wordle #1947).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /əˈdɔɹn//əˈdɔː(ɹ)n/
- Verb
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To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
“a man adorned with noble statuary and columns”
- Noun
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adornment
- Adjective
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adorned; ornate
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English adornen, adournen, from Latin adōrnāre; from ad- + ōrnō (“furnish, embellish”). See adore, ornate. Replaced earlier Middle English aournen (“to adorn”) borrowed from Old French aorner, from the same Latin source.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it UHDAWRN.
Rhymes with SWORN BORNE THORN MOURN SCORN
Related meanings
Synonyms GRACE deck invest decorate ornament
In a sentence
A few Renaissance paintings adorn the walls of this room.
The violets adorn my kitchen windows.
Use ADORN in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: October 18, 2026 (#1947).
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ADORN is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 86.4% of games, misses completely in 13.6%, and leaves about 134 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #651 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe ADORN 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How ADORN 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches ADORN in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
ADORN can come back 112 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for ADORN; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing ADORN
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to ADORN.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing ADORN:
Research on ADORN
Game-tree analysis and word research for ADORN, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with ADORN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,508 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 ADORN can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- ADORN sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once 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.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.6 of 5).
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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).