ANGLE
Yes, ANGLE was the Wordle answer on March 24, 2025 (Wordle #1374).
As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈæŋ.ɡəl/[ˈæŋ.ɡəl] ~ [ˈæŋ.ɡl̩]/ˈeɪ̯ŋ.ɡəl/
- Noun
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A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
“the angle between lines A and B”
- Noun
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The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere.
“The angle between lines A and B is π/4 radians, or 45 degrees.”
- Verb
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To place (something) at an angle.
“The roof is angled at 15 degrees.”
- Verb
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To change direction rapidly.
“The five ball angled off the nine ball but failed to reach the pocket.”
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: March 24, 2025 (#1374).
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ANGLE 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 120 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,751 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe ANGLE 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 ANGLE 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 ANGLE in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
ANGLE can come back 121 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 ANGLE; 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 ANGLE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to ANGLE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing ANGLE:
Research on ANGLE
Game-tree analysis and word research for ANGLE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with ANGLE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,329 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 ANGLE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, 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 ANGGUHL.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, ANGLE is a kind of european or space.
Synonyms weight fish tip lean tilt SLANT
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- ANGLE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 24 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.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 65 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).
In a sentence
Look at things from every angle.
This table is at an angle.
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).