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ALONG

Yes, ALONG was the Wordle answer on September 15, 2025 (Wordle #1549).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈlɒŋ//əˈlæŋ//əˈlɑŋ/

Preposition

By the length of; in a line with the length of; lengthwise next to.

“Water whished along the boat as we rowed upstream.”

Preposition

In a line with, with a progressive motion on; onward on; forward on.

Adverb

In company; together.

“John played the piano and everyone sang along.”

Adverb

Onward, forward, with progressive action.

“Don't stop here. Just move along.”

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: September 15, 2025 (#1549).

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

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How ALONG performs as a guess

ALONG 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 83.0% of games, misses completely in 17.0%, and leaves about 158 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,070 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___G A in the 1st position and G in the 5th position A__N_ A in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _L__G L in the 2nd position and G in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ALONG 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.

4.87 Entropy (bits)
158 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 76% of evaluated openers
1.08 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ALONG 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#2,070 Rank among openers
Opening with ALONG left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #2,070 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
974
4 guesses
1,111
5 guesses
186
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ALNO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
27%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S A L O N
A L O N G

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ALONG in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

ALONG can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

403 answers
317 answers
152 answers
138 answers
122 answers
110 answers
110 answers
58 answers
58 answers
56 answers
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33 answers
28 answers
24 answers
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19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
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15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1L1O1N1G2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

STIRE CRATE TORSE SILER TARSE SIDEY

Strategy after playing ALONG

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ALONG:

17% chance
Suggested:
STIRE
13% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
6% chance
Suggested:
TORSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.0% →
STIRE 6.11 bits
13.4% →
CRATE 5.76 bits
6.4% →
TORSE 5.22 bits
5.8% →
SILER 4.95 bits
5.1% →
TARSE 4.78 bits
4.6% →
SIDEY 5.02 bits
4.6% →
STURE 4.75 bits
2.4% →
SIRED 4.82 bits
2.4% →
SPICE 4.76 bits
2.4% →
RAISE 4.38 bits

Research on ALONG

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

Optimal play

Opening with ALONG, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,972 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.78 guesses at best and is rank #812 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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 UHLAWNG.

Rhymes with WRONG THONG PRONG STONG

Related meanings

Synonyms on

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ALONG sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 240 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 A1); among the first words English learners study.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.1 of 5).

In a sentence

I was right all along.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Do you two get along?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).