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AWOKE

Yes, AWOKE was the Wordle answer on November 3, 2025 (Wordle #1598).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈwəʊk/

Verb

simple past of awake

Verb

past participle of awake

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: November 3, 2025 (#1598).

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How AWOKE performs as a guess

AWOKE 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 87.3% of games, misses completely in 12.7%, and leaves about 165 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,853 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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__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

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

First-turn measures

All four describe AWOKE 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.

4.54 Entropy (bits)
165 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 54% of evaluated openers
1.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AWOKE 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,853 Rank among openers
Opening with AWOKE solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,853 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
723
4 guesses
1,272
5 guesses
279
6 guesses
22
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

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
32%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
A B L E D
A W O K E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches AWOKE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

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

301 answers
299 answers
289 answers
175 answers
157 answers
149 answers
114 answers
103 answers
88 answers
73 answers
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13 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1W4O1K5E1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SPILT SATIN DETER COUNT SIREN METAL

Strategy after playing AWOKE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AWOKE:

13% chance
Suggested:
SPILT
13% chance
Suggested:
SATIN
12% chance
Suggested:
DETER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.7% →
SPILT 5.59 bits
12.6% →
SATIN 5.10 bits
12.2% →
DETER 5.44 bits
7.4% →
COUNT 4.88 bits
6.6% →
SIREN 4.46 bits
6.3% →
METAL 4.72 bits
4.8% →
SLART 4.51 bits
4.3% →
TROOP 4.51 bits
3.7% →
CAROL 4.47 bits
3.1% →
VOTER 4.30 bits

Research on AWOKE

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

Optimal play

Opening with AWOKE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,569 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.93 guesses at best and is rank #4,830 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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 UHWOHK.

Rhymes with BROKE SMOKE SPOKE STOKE CHOKE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, AWOKE is a kind of turn.

Synonyms ALIVE wake ALERT awaken up AWARE

Opposites asleep unaware

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AWOKE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

In a sentence

I awoke with a start.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
When he awoke it was day.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (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).