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ALERT

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

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

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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.

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).

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

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How ALERT performs as a guess

ALERT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,360 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.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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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

Try next

NOISY NOISE MASON CRONY SILLY SOUTH
Words starting with A Words ending with T

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
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

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
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

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 L E A
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:

204 answers
164 answers
147 answers
115 answers
99 answers
86 answers
85 answers
78 answers
62 answers
62 answers
59 answers
52 answers
50 answers
49 answers
48 answers
47 answers
42 answers
35 answers
31 answers
31 answers
30 answers
29 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers

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 5.41 bits
6.9% →
NOISE 4.49 bits
6.2% →
NOISE 5.24 bits
4.9% →
MASON 4.65 bits
4.2% →
CRONY 4.59 bits
3.6% →
SILLY 4.84 bits
3.6% →
SOUTH 4.79 bits
3.3% →
BARON 4.11 bits
2.6% →
SAUCE 4.24 bits
2.6% →
SOILY 4.33 bits

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.

The science of ALERT

What game-tree analysis and word research measure about ALERT — each figure with what it means.

Optimal play

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

In hard mode it averages 3.71 guesses at best — 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 only 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) — not 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

Meaning network

In WordNet's sense inventory, ALERT is a kind of preparation or warning.

Synonyms ALIVE ALARM AWAKE lively MERRY spanking

Opposites unaware

How people know it

Frequency
ALERT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 21 times per million words of written English — 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
Scores 40 of 100 for imageability — raters can only partly picture it.
Dominant sense
People report experiencing what it names mainly by sound (auditory strength 3.5 of 5 in the Lancaster norms).

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).