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ARROW

Yes, ARROW was the Wordle answer on April 11, 2025 (Wordle #1392).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈæɹəʊ/[ˈæɹəʊ̯]/ˈaɹəw/

Noun

A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.

Noun

A sign or symbol used to indicate a direction (e.g.→).

Verb

To move swiftly and directly (like an arrow).

Verb

To let fly swiftly and directly.

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: April 11, 2025 (#1392).

See the full page for that puzzle: April 11, 2025 (#1392).

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

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How ARROW performs as a guess

ARROW 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 77.7% of games, misses completely in 22.3%, and leaves about 243 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,395 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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___W A in the 1st position and W in the 5th position A__O_ A in the 1st position and O in the 4th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ARROW 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.

4.24 Entropy (bits)
243 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 35% of evaluated openers
1.71 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ARROW 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,395 Rank among openers
Opening with ARROW left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.79 average. It ranks #11,395 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
756
4 guesses
1,214
5 guesses
318
6 guesses
20
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
28%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
A R M O R
A R R O W

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ARROW in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

ARROW can come back 80 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

529 answers
405 answers
254 answers
125 answers
111 answers
96 answers
70 answers
69 answers
65 answers
62 answers
55 answers
49 answers
46 answers
41 answers
28 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1R1R1O1W4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

STILE SLATE CONTE SLEET LEAST SPITE

Strategy after playing ARROW

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ARROW:

22% chance
Suggested:
STILE
17% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
11% chance
Suggested:
CONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.3% →
STILE 6.06 bits
17.1% →
SLATE 5.55 bits
10.7% →
CONTE 5.14 bits
5.3% →
SLEET 4.91 bits
4.7% →
LEAST 4.49 bits
4.0% →
SPITE 4.70 bits
2.9% →
BLITE 4.88 bits
2.9% →
DRICE 3.90 bits
2.7% →
COSEY 4.18 bits
2.6% →
SEITY 4.74 bits

Research on ARROW

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

Optimal play

Opening with ARROW, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,761 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.96 guesses at best and is rank #5,498 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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 AROH.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ARROW is a kind of mark or missile.

Synonyms pointer

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ARROW sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 13 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 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 95 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

The arrow hit the target.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I hit the mark with the arrow.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (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).