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APRON

Yes, APRON was the Wordle answer on June 16, 2022 (Wordle #362).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.pɹən//ˈeɪ.pəɹn/

Noun

An article of clothing worn over the front of the torso and/or legs for protection from spills; also historically worn by Freemasons and as part of women's fashion.

“She tied an apron around her waist before cooking dinner.”

Noun

The short cassock ordinarily worn by English bishops.

Verb

To cover with, or as if with, an apron.

Alternative forms: napron

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: June 16, 2022 (#362).

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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 APRON performs as a guess

APRON 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 86.5% of games, misses completely in 13.5%, and leaves about 133 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #798 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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___N A in the 1st position and N in the 5th position A__O_ A in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _P__N P in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe APRON 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.

5.03 Entropy (bits)
133 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 85% of evaluated openers
0.91 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How APRON 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#798 Rank among openers
Opening with APRON 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 3.59 average. It ranks #798 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
1,022
4 guesses
1,069
5 guesses
179
6 guesses
13
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:
ANOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
23%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
A R M O R
A P R O N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches APRON in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

APRON can come back 111 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

320 answers
271 answers
172 answers
169 answers
152 answers
138 answers
90 answers
75 answers
68 answers
57 answers
56 answers
47 answers
43 answers
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29 answers
26 answers
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22 answers
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17 answers
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14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1P3R1O1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

STILE SLATE STOLE TRIED LEAST SEITY

Strategy after playing APRON

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing APRON:

13% chance
Suggested:
STILE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
STOLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.5% →
STILE 6.13 bits
11.4% →
SLATE 5.66 bits
7.2% →
STOLE 5.09 bits
7.1% →
TRIED 5.29 bits
6.4% →
LEAST 4.63 bits
5.8% →
SEITY 5.17 bits
3.8% →
SOOTE 4.31 bits
3.2% →
SALET 4.28 bits
2.9% →
SLIME 4.80 bits
2.4% →
SHIRE 4.38 bits

Research on APRON

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

Optimal play

Opening with APRON, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,515 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.75 guesses at best and is rank #352 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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 AYPRUHN.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, APRON is a kind of wear or site.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
APRON sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 94 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.1 of 5).

In a sentence

I put on an apron.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Please put on this apron.
© 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; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).