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ANGEL

Yes, ANGEL was the Wordle answer on September 16, 2023 (Wordle #819).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ̯n.d͡ʒəl/[ˈeɪ̯n.d͡ʒəl] ~ [ˈeɪ̯n.d͡ʒl̩]/ˈæɪ̯n.d͡ʒəl/

Noun

An incorporeal and holy or semidivine messenger from a deity or other divine entity, traditionally depicted as a youthful, winged figure in flowing robes.

Noun

A person having qualities traditionally attributed to angels.

Verb

To support by donating money.

Alternative forms: angell

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 16, 2023 (#819).

See the full page for that puzzle: September 16, 2023 (#819).

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

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How ANGEL performs as a guess

ANGEL 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 86.6% of games, misses completely in 13.4%, and leaves about 123 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,149 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___L A in the 1st position and L in the 5th position A__E_ A in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _N__L N in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ANGEL 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.

5.15 Entropy (bits)
123 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 90% of evaluated openers
0.80 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ANGEL 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#2,149 Rank among openers
Opening with ANGEL left 2 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 #2,149 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
87
3 guesses
908
4 guesses
1,174
5 guesses
167
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:
AELN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
28%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ANGEL in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

ANGEL can come back 125 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

319 answers
217 answers
214 answers
129 answers
129 answers
122 answers
107 answers
73 answers
73 answers
70 answers
63 answers
54 answers
41 answers
38 answers
34 answers
34 answers
33 answers
31 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1N1G2E1L1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SHORT TERSE SATYR SORER CRATE SOULY

Strategy after playing ANGEL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ANGEL:

13% chance
Suggested:
SHORT
9% chance
Suggested:
TERSE
9% chance
Suggested:
SATYR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.4% →
SHORT 5.99 bits
9.1% →
TERSE 5.50 bits
9.0% →
SATYR 5.01 bits
5.4% →
SORER 3.93 bits
5.4% →
CRATE 5.10 bits
5.1% →
SOULY 4.80 bits
4.5% →
COUNT 5.04 bits
3.1% →
COAST 4.49 bits
3.1% →
TRAIN 4.37 bits
2.9% →
STILE 4.40 bits

Research on ANGEL

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

Optimal play

Opening with ANGEL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,267 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 ANGEL can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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 first syllable Say it AYNJUHL.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ANGEL is a kind of belief or actor.

Synonyms SAINT backer

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ANGEL sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 28 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: 76 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.5 of 5).

In a sentence

The angel is with me.
© tatoeba.org contributor rul (CC BY 2.0 FR)
You just are an angel.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (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).