ALIKE
Yes, ALIKE was the Wordle answer on September 20, 2022 (Wordle #458).
As an opener, it rules out about 95.2% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /əˈlaɪk/
- Adjective
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Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
“Twins are physically alike, that is, similar-looking people on the outside.”
- Adverb
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In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally.
“We are all alike concerned in religion.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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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: September 20, 2022 (#458).
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ALIKE 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 88.3% of games, misses completely in 11.7%, and leaves about 113 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,329 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe ALIKE 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 ALIKE 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 ALIKE in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
ALIKE can come back 106 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 ALIKE; 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 ALIKE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to ALIKE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing ALIKE:
Research on ALIKE
Game-tree analysis and word research for ALIKE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with ALIKE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,441 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 ALIKE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.69; proven optimal play reaches 3.68. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.
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.
Related meanings
Synonyms like similar likewise
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- ALIKE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 13 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 B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).
In a sentence
You and I think alike.
They are all alike to me.
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).