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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

AWARD

Yes, AWARD was the Wordle answer on February 26, 2025 (Wordle #1348).

As an opener, it rules out about 87.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈwɔːd//əˈwɔɹd/

Noun

A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.

Noun

The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.

Verb

To determine; to make or grant an award.

Verb

To give (an award).

“Four or five of these medals are awarded every year.”

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: February 26, 2025 (#1348).

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

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How AWARD performs as a guess

AWARD 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 71.3% of games, misses completely in 28.7%, and leaves about 295 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,061 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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___D A in the 1st position and D in the 5th position A__R_ A in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _W__D W in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TOISE CLOTE SLICE TALER SIENT
Words starting with A Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.06 Entropy (bits)
295 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 25% of evaluated openers
1.89 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How AWARD 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
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#11,061 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, AWARD ranks #11,061 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
749
4 guesses
1,219
5 guesses
313
6 guesses
18
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
2 vowels
Common:
AR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
28%
All gray
29%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S W I N G
A W A R D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches AWARD in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

83 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

677
337
237
147
119
97
64
58
53
48
47
46
35
35
28
24
19
18
16
16
14
12
12
11
9
9
8
8
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AWARD:

29% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
14% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
10% chance
Suggested:
CLOTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.7% →
TOILE 6.05 bits
14.3% →
TOISE 5.45 bits
10.1% →
CLOTE 5.18 bits
6.2% →
SLICE 5.26 bits
5.0% →
TALER 4.58 bits
4.1% →
TOILE 5.11 bits
2.7% →
SIENT 4.72 bits
2.5% →
CLONE 4.89 bits
2.2% →
SINCE 3.95 bits
2.0% →
DRIER 4.35 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1W4A1R1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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