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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess F tier opener

CIVIL

Yes, CIVIL was the Wordle answer on September 29, 2025 (Wordle #1563).

As an opener, it rules out about 82.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsɪv.əl/

Adjective

Having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion.

“She went into civil service because she wanted to help the people.”

Adjective

Behaving in a reasonable or polite manner; avoiding displays of hostility.

“It was very civil of him to stop the argument.”

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: September 29, 2025 (#1563).

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

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How CIVIL performs as a guess

CIVIL 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 62.2% of games, misses completely in 37.8%, and leaves about 414 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,722 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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.

C___L C in the 1st position and L in the 5th position C__I_ C in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _I__L I in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE ALOSE TRONE RONTE ORATE SATER
Words starting with C Words ending with L

First-turn measures

3.66 Entropy (bits)
414 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
82.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.29 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CIVIL 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.75 Volatility
#12,722 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CIVIL ranks #12,722 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
701
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
350
6 guesses
29
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:
IL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
29%
All gray
38%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
C I V I L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CIVIL in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

74 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

891
292
180
137
108
108
87
71
45
44
34
32
30
21
19
19
18
18
17
15
14
13
12
8
8
8
7
7
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CIVIL:

38% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
12% chance
Suggested:
ALOSE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.8% →
ROATE 6.18 bits
12.4% →
ALOSE 5.36 bits
7.6% →
TRONE 5.35 bits
5.8% →
ROATE 5.41 bits
4.6% →
RONTE 4.67 bits
4.6% →
ORATE 5.40 bits
3.7% →
SATER 4.66 bits
3.0% →
TARSE 5.05 bits
1.9% →
SLATE 4.29 bits
1.9% →
SEARE 4.68 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3I1V4I1L1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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