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ALERT

Yes, ALERT was the Wordle answer on March 6, 2025 (Wordle #1356).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈlɜːt//əˈlɝt/

Adjective

Attentive; awake; on guard.

Noun

An alarm.

Noun

A notification of higher importance than an advisory.

Verb

To give warning to.

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

Use ALERT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 96.9% of possible answers.

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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: March 6, 2025 (#1356).

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How ALERT performs as a guess

ALERT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,375 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 91.4% of games, misses completely in 8.6%, and leaves about 74 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #365 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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__R_ A in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _L__T L in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ALERT 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.

5.74 Entropy (bits)
74 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ALERT 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#365 Rank among openers
Opening with ALERT left 3 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 3.58 average. It ranks #365 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
94
3 guesses
1,002
4 guesses
1,078
5 guesses
152
6 guesses
24

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AELRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
91%
Green tile
32%
All gray
9%

Example solver route

R O A T E
T A E L S
A L E R T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ALERT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

ALERT can come back 131 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

205 answers
165 answers
149 answers
116 answers
100 answers
86 answers
86 answers
78 answers
63 answers
62 answers
60 answers
53 answers
50 answers
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48 answers
47 answers
42 answers
35 answers
31 answers
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26 answers
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21 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1L1E1R1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

NOISY NOISE MASON CRONY SOUTH SILLY

Strategy after playing ALERT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ALERT:

9% chance
Suggested:
NOISY
7% chance
Suggested:
NOISE
6% chance
Suggested:
NOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

8.6% →
NOISY 5.42 bits
6.9% →
NOISE 4.49 bits
6.3% →
NOISE 5.24 bits
4.9% →
MASON 4.65 bits
4.2% →
CRONY 4.62 bits
3.6% →
SOUTH 4.78 bits
3.6% →
SILLY 4.84 bits
3.3% →
BARON 4.11 bits
2.7% →
SAUCE 4.23 bits
2.6% →
SOILY 4.33 bits

Research on ALERT

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

Optimal play

Opening with ALERT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #165 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.71 guesses at best and is rank #39 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.60, 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 UHLURT.

Rhymes with SHIRT SKIRT FLIRT EXERT OVERT

Related meanings

Synonyms ALIVE ALARM AWAKE lively MERRY spanking

Opposites unaware

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ALERT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 21 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
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: 40 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (3.5 of 5).

In a sentence

You need to be alert.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I need to be more alert.
© tatoeba.org contributor AlanF_US (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).