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.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /əˈweɪk//əˈweːk/[əˈweːk]
- Adjective
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Not asleep; conscious.
- Adjective
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Alert, aware.
“They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.”
- Verb
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To become conscious after having slept.
- Verb
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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
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used 2 timesPast Wordle answer: June 23, 2021 (#4); February 21, 2026 (#1708).
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See what the public sample says →How AWAKE performs as a guess
AWAKE 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 75.6% of games, misses completely in 24.4%, and leaves about 270 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,009 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe AWAKE 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 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches AWAKE in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
AWAKE can come back 67 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 AWAKE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing AWAKE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to AWAKE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing AWAKE:
Research on AWAKE
Game-tree analysis and word research for AWAKE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with AWAKE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,260 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 AWAKE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.90; proven optimal play reaches 3.87. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.
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 UHWAYK.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, AWAKE is a kind of turn.
Synonyms ALIVE wake ALERT awaken up AWARE
Opposites asleep unaware
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- AWAKE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 14 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
In a sentence
I see you are awake.
I see you are all awake.
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.