CLASH
Yes, CLASH was the Wordle answer on April 26, 2025 (Wordle #1407).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈklæʃ/[ˈkʰl̥æʃ]
- Noun
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A loud sound, like the crashing together of metal objects; a crash.
“I heard a clash from the kitchen, and rushed in to find the cat had knocked over some pots and pans.”
- Noun
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A skirmish, a hostile encounter.
- Verb
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To make a clashing sound.
“The cymbals clashed.”
- Verb
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To cause to make a clashing sound.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Saterland Frisian klatskje (“to smack, slap”), West Frisian kletse, kletskje, Dutch kletsen (“to smack, slap, clash”), German Low German klattsen, klatsken (“to smack, splash”), German klatschen (“to clap, smack, slap”) and Klatsch (“a clapping sound; the din resulting from two or more things colliding”), Danish klaske (“to clash, splatter”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it KLASH.
Rhymes with CRASH FLASH TRASH SMASH SLASH
Related meanings
Synonyms CRASH encounter BRUSH jar friction collide
In a sentence
His interests clash with mine.
There was another clash a few months later.
Use CLASH in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: April 26, 2025 (#1407).
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See what the public sample says →CLASH in Connections
3 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1031
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CLASH appeared in COMPETITION (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #923
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CLASH appeared in BRITISH BANDS FORMED IN THE 1970S, WITH "THE" (blue group).
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· Puzzle #302
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CLASH appeared in DISPUTE (green group).
How CLASH performs as a guess
CLASH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 79.5% of games, misses completely in 20.5%, and leaves about 168 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #329 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe CLASH 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How CLASH 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches CLASH in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
CLASH can come back 114 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for CLASH; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing CLASH
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CLASH.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing CLASH:
Research on CLASH
Game-tree analysis and word research for CLASH, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with CLASH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,813 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.78 guesses at best and is rank #824 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- CLASH sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 9 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.9 of 5).
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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).