ELEGY
Yes, ELEGY was the Wordle answer on September 26, 2026 (Wordle #1925).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈɛlɪd͡ʒi/
- Noun
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A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.
“funeral elegy”
- Noun
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A composition of mournful character.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle French elegie, from Latin elegīa, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐλεγείᾱ (elegeíā), ellipsis of ἐλεγείᾱ ᾠδή (elegeíā ōidḗ, “an elegiac song”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it EHLUHJEE.
Related meanings
Synonyms lament
In a sentence
Tom wrote an elegy for Mary.
What's the difference between an elegy and a eulogy?
Use ELEGY in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 88.8% 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: September 26, 2026 (#1925).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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ELEGY appeared in BODY PARTS SURROUNDED BY TWO LETTERS (purple group).
How ELEGY performs as a guess
ELEGY 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 75.7% of games, misses completely in 24.3%, and leaves about 268 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,104 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 ELEGY 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 ELEGY 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 ELEGY in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
ELEGY can come back 78 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 ELEGY; 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 ELEGY
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to ELEGY.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing ELEGY:
Research on ELEGY
Game-tree analysis and word research for ELEGY, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with ELEGY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,374 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.97 guesses at best and is rank #5,622 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 3.81, 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
- ELEGY sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
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).