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AWARD

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.4% 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).

See the full page for that puzzle: 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 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 71.2% of games, misses completely in 28.8%, and leaves about 298 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,061 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___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

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

First-turn measures

All four describe AWARD 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.

4.06 Entropy (bits)
298 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.4% 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 opening guess: previous 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#11,061 Rank among openers
Opening with AWARD left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.79 average. It 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 (3.46 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
C H I L D
G R A N D
A W A R D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches AWARD in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

AWARD can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

684 answers
339 answers
238 answers
147 answers
119 answers
98 answers
64 answers
59 answers
53 answers
48 answers
47 answers
46 answers
35 answers
35 answers
28 answers
24 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers

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.

Try next

TOILE TOISE CLOTE SLICE TALER SIENT

Strategy after playing AWARD

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

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.

28.8% →
TOILE 6.05 bits
14.3% →
TOISE 5.45 bits
10.0% →
CLOTE 5.18 bits
6.2% →
SLICE 5.26 bits
5.0% →
TALER 4.58 bits
4.1% →
TOILE 5.14 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

Research on AWARD

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

Optimal play

Opening with AWARD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,668 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 AWARD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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 UHWAWRD.

Rhymes with BOARD SWORD BORED CHORD HOARD

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, AWARD is a kind of grant or symbol.

Synonyms present HONOR GRANT PRIZE honour awarding

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AWARD sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 76 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 A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 77 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.3 of 5).

In a sentence

The award should be for me!
© tatoeba.org contributor aka_aj (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I heard about your award.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (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).