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ANNEX

Yes, ANNEX was the Wordle answer on August 26, 2025 (Wordle #1529).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈænɛks//əˈnɛks/

Noun

An addition, an extension.

Noun

An appendix to a book or document.

Verb

To add something to another thing, especially territory; to incorporate.

“The ancient city of Petra was annexed by Rome.”

Verb

To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.

“to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt”

Alternative forms: annexe, anex

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: August 26, 2025 (#1529).

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

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How ANNEX performs as a guess

ANNEX is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 77.5% of games, misses completely in 22.5%, and leaves about 270 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,342 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.93 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

A___X A in the 1st position and X in the 5th position A__E_ A in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _N__X N in the 2nd position and X in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY SLART TERSE SOLAR TRAIN BRISE
Words starting with A Words ending with X

First-turn measures

3.84 Entropy (bits)
270 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 16% of evaluated openers
2.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ANNEX 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.

3.93 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.75 Volatility
#14,342 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ANNEX ranks #14,342 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
568
4 guesses
1,287
5 guesses
411
6 guesses
44
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
27%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ANNEX in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

61 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

530
352
334
218
188
116
80
60
59
44
43
35
30
27
26
21
20
15
13
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13
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8
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5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ANNEX:

22% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
15% chance
Suggested:
SLART
14% chance
Suggested:
TERSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.5% →
SOILY 5.57 bits
14.9% →
SLART 5.22 bits
14.2% →
TERSE 5.35 bits
9.2% →
SLART 5.18 bits
8.0% →
SOLAR 4.10 bits
4.9% →
SOILY 4.61 bits
3.4% →
TRAIN 4.42 bits
2.5% →
BRISE 4.46 bits
2.5% →
ALTAR 4.25 bits
1.9% →
TARGE 2.89 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1N1N1E1X8
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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