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AISLE

Yes, AISLE was the Wordle answer on September 11, 2024 (Wordle #1180).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /aɪ̯l/

Noun

A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers.

Noun

A clear path/passage through rows of seating.

Alternative forms: isle

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: September 11, 2024 (#1180).

See the full page for that puzzle: September 11, 2024 (#1180).

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

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How AISLE performs as a guess

AISLE 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 91.5% of games, misses completely in 8.5%, and leaves about 78 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #678 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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__L_ A in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _I__E I in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe AISLE 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.

5.64 Entropy (bits)
78 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.7% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.30 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AISLE 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#678 Rank among openers
Opening with AISLE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #678 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
95
3 guesses
989
4 guesses
1,066
5 guesses
184
6 guesses
17
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:
AEILS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
92%
Green tile
37%
All gray
8%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S M I L Y
A I S L E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches AISLE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

AISLE can come back 121 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

202 answers
177 answers
175 answers
99 answers
93 answers
89 answers
83 answers
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67 answers
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18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1I1S1L1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

THORN CARAT TENOR REACT SNORT PRINT

Strategy after playing AISLE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AISLE:

9% chance
Suggested:
THORN
7% chance
Suggested:
CARAT
7% chance
Suggested:
TENOR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

8.5% →
THORN 5.52 bits
7.5% →
CARAT 4.85 bits
7.4% →
TENOR 5.21 bits
4.2% →
REACT 4.42 bits
3.9% →
SNORT 4.99 bits
3.7% →
PRINT 4.91 bits
3.5% →
GRONE 4.25 bits
3.2% →
SCANT 4.36 bits
2.8% →
CAROL 4.25 bits
2.8% →
NIGHT 3.81 bits

Research on AISLE

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

Optimal play

Opening with AISLE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #488 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 AISLE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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

One syllable Say it YL.

Rhymes with WHILE STYLE SMILE GUILE STILE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, AISLE is a kind of passage or way.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AISLE 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 beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 74 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).

In a sentence

He was running down the aisle.
© tatoeba.org contributor Conjuice (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Could I sit on the aisle?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (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).