ALIVE
Yes, ALIVE was the Wordle answer on February 1, 2024 (Wordle #957).
As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /əˈlaɪv/
- Adjective
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Having life; living; not dead.
“As long as the plant is alive, he will continue to water it.”
- Adjective
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In a state of action; in force or operation; existent.
“to keep the fire alive”
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: February 1, 2024 (#957).
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ALIVE 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 87.0% of games, misses completely in 13.0%, and leaves about 124 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,200 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe ALIVE 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 ALIVE 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 ALIVE in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
ALIVE can come back 107 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 ALIVE; 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 ALIVE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to ALIVE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing ALIVE:
Research on ALIVE
Game-tree analysis and word research for ALIVE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with ALIVE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,835 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 ALIVE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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.
Related meanings
Synonyms live active ALERT AWAKE animated AWARE
Opposites dead dull unaware extinct
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- ALIVE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 58 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- 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 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 63 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
In a sentence
Are you alive in there?
What a time to be alive!
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).