CYCLE
Yes, CYCLE was the Wordle answer on April 14, 2026 (Wordle #1760).
As an opener, it rules out about 90.5% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪ.kəl/[ˈsaɪ.kɫ̩][ˈsʌɪ.kəl]
- Noun
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An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
“the cycle of the seasons, or of the year”
- Noun
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A complete rotation of anything.
- Verb
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To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
- Verb
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To turn power off and back on
“Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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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 14, 2026 (#1760).
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See what the public sample says →How CYCLE performs as a guess
CYCLE 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 79.2% of games, misses completely in 20.8%, and leaves about 226 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,181 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe CYCLE 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 CYCLE 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 CYCLE in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
CYCLE can come back 63 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 CYCLE; 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 CYCLE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CYCLE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing CYCLE:
Research on CYCLE
Game-tree analysis and word research for CYCLE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with CYCLE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,734 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 4.01 guesses at best and is rank #6,325 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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 first syllable Say it SYKUHL.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, CYCLE is a kind of interval or series.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- CYCLE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 40 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 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 66 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.5 of 5).
In a sentence
Try to power cycle it?
I'd like to cycle with you.
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).