ASIDE
Yes, ASIDE was the Wordle answer on December 28, 2021 (Wordle #192).
As an opener, it rules out about 95.7% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /əˈsaɪd/
- Adverb
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To or on one side so as to be out of the way.
“Move aside, please, so that these people can come through.”
- Adverb
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Excluded from consideration.
“joking aside”
- Adjective
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Not in perfect symmetry; distorted laterally, especially of the human body.
- Noun
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An incidental remark to a person next to one made discreetly but not in private, audible only to that person.
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: December 28, 2021 (#192).
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See what the public sample says →How ASIDE performs as a guess
ASIDE 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 90.3% of games, misses completely in 9.7%, and leaves about 103 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,197 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe ASIDE 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 ASIDE 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 ASIDE in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
ASIDE can come back 103 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 ASIDE; 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 ASIDE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to ASIDE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing ASIDE:
Research on ASIDE
Game-tree analysis and word research for ASIDE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with ASIDE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,582 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 ASIDE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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 second syllable Say it UHSYD.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, ASIDE is a kind of words or content.
Synonyms by away APART
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- ASIDE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 39 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.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (1.9 of 5).
In a sentence
Set this aside for me.
I will put them aside.
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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).