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AWARE

Yes, AWARE was the Wordle answer on May 13, 2025 (Wordle #1424).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈwɛə/[əˈwɛə̯] ~ [əˈwɛː]/əˈwɛː/

Adjective

Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.

“Stay aware! Don't let your guard down.”

Adjective

Conscious or having knowledge of something; awake.

“Are you aware of what is being said about you?”

Verb

To make (someone) aware of something.

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: May 13, 2025 (#1424).

See the full page for that puzzle: May 13, 2025 (#1424).

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

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How AWARE performs as a guess

AWARE 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 80.5% of games, misses completely in 19.5%, and leaves about 172 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,018 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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___E A in the 1st position and E in the 5th position A__R_ A in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _W__E W in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe AWARE 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.

4.66 Entropy (bits)
172 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 62% of evaluated openers
1.29 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AWARE 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#12,018 Rank among openers
Opening with AWARE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.75 means those games clustered within about 0.75 of a guess of the 3.81 average. It ranks #12,018 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
724
4 guesses
1,206
5 guesses
337
6 guesses
28
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
36%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C R I S P
B A G E L
A W A R E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches AWARE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

AWARE can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

462 answers
203 answers
170 answers
169 answers
164 answers
162 answers
90 answers
74 answers
72 answers
69 answers
56 answers
47 answers
44 answers
43 answers
41 answers
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27 answers
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23 answers
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19 answers
18 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1W4A1R1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SOILY INLET TRIER SONLY GROUT SLANT

Strategy after playing AWARE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AWARE:

19% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
9% chance
Suggested:
INLET
7% chance
Suggested:
TRIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.5% →
SOILY 5.69 bits
8.6% →
INLET 5.11 bits
7.2% →
TRIER 4.22 bits
7.1% →
SONLY 4.92 bits
6.9% →
SOILY 4.69 bits
6.8% →
GROUT 4.96 bits
3.8% →
SLANT 4.70 bits
3.1% →
POISE 3.75 bits
3.0% →
CAROL 4.32 bits
2.9% →
PETAL 4.49 bits

Research on AWARE

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

Optimal play

Opening with AWARE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,139 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 AWARE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81; proven optimal play reaches 3.79. 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 UHWEHR.

Rhymes with THEIR THERE WHERE SHARE CHAIR

Related meanings

Synonyms mindful ALIVE careful ALERT conscious AWAKE

Opposites unaware

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AWARE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 60 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.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 26 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with internal bodily sensation (3.2 of 5).

In a sentence

I was aware of that.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I was aware of it.
© tatoeba.org contributor rul (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).