ALLOY
Yes, ALLOY was the Wordle answer on June 4, 2026 (Wordle #1811).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈæ.lɔɪ//əˈlɔɪ/
- Noun
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A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, a base metal.
- Noun
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An admixture; something added which stains, taints etc.
- Verb
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To mix or combine; often used of metals.
- Verb
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To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance.
“to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Modification of Middle English alayen after Etymology 1, from Middle French allayer, vairant of allier, from Old French allier (“assemble, join”), from Latin alligare (“bind to, tie to”), compound of ad (“to”) + ligare (“to bind”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it ALOY.
Related meanings
Synonyms METAL
In a sentence
They developed a new alloy.
That's not iron, but some alloy.
Use ALLOY in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 90.2% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
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: June 4, 2026 (#1811).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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ALLOY appeared in WHAT “BRONZE” MIGHT MEAN (purple group).
How ALLOY performs as a guess
ALLOY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 78.5% of games, misses completely in 21.5%, and leaves about 233 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,178 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe ALLOY 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 ALLOY 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 ALLOY in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
ALLOY can come back 86 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 ALLOY; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing ALLOY
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to ALLOY.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing ALLOY:
Research on ALLOY
Game-tree analysis and word research for ALLOY, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with ALLOY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,319 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 ALLOY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- ALLOY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.1 of 5).
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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).