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AWAKE

Yes, AWAKE has been the Wordle answer on June 23, 2021 (Wordle #4) and February 21, 2026 (Wordle #1708).

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈweɪk//əˈweːk/[əˈweːk]

Adjective

Not asleep; conscious.

Adjective

Alert, aware.

“They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.”

Verb

To become conscious after having slept.

Verb

To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.

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 2 times

Past Wordle answer: June 23, 2021 (#4); February 21, 2026 (#1708).

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

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How AWAKE performs as a guess

AWAKE 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 75.6% of games, misses completely in 24.4%, and leaves about 268 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,009 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

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

A___E A in the 1st position and E in the 5th position A__K_ A in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _W__E W in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

MOULT DETER RATIO SIREN SLART CLEAR
Words starting with A Words ending with E

First-turn measures

3.97 Entropy (bits)
268 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 21% of evaluated openers
1.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How AWAKE 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#14,009 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, AWAKE ranks #14,009 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
605
4 guesses
1,278
5 guesses
400
6 guesses
28
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
3 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
34%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
K N E E D
A W A K E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches AWAKE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

67 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

575
364
246
238
116
115
66
64
57
52
50
41
38
31
28
26
20
19
18
14
14
12
11
11
11
9
9
7
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AWAKE:

24% chance
Suggested:
MOULT
15% chance
Suggested:
DETER
10% chance
Suggested:
RATIO

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.4% →
MOULT 5.62 bits
15.4% →
DETER 5.38 bits
10.4% →
RATIO 4.90 bits
10.1% →
SIREN 4.50 bits
4.9% →
SLART 4.67 bits
4.9% →
CLEAR 4.53 bits
2.8% →
SLART 3.82 bits
2.7% →
CLINK 4.30 bits
2.4% →
TRONE 4.10 bits
2.2% →
WORDY 4.35 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1W4A1K5E1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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