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ERASE

Yes, ERASE was the Wordle answer on December 10, 2025 (Wordle #1635).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹeɪs//i-//ɪˈɹeɪz/

Verb

To remove (markings or information).

“I erased that word from the page because it was wrong.”

Verb

To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.

“I'm going to erase this tape.”

Noun

The operation of deleting data.

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: December 10, 2025 (#1635).

See the full page for that puzzle: December 10, 2025 (#1635).

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

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How ERASE performs as a guess

ERASE 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 85.8% of games, misses completely in 14.2%, and leaves about 111 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,876 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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.

E___E E in the 1st position and E in the 5th position E__S_ E in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ERASE 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.

5.28 Entropy (bits)
111 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.67 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ERASE 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,876 Rank among openers
Opening with ERASE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,876 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
869
4 guesses
1,183
5 guesses
214
6 guesses
21
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
39%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C R I S P
E R A S E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ERASE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

ERASE can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

338 answers
207 answers
134 answers
122 answers
115 answers
92 answers
83 answers
82 answers
80 answers
70 answers
50 answers
48 answers
48 answers
41 answers
40 answers
39 answers
36 answers
35 answers
32 answers
31 answers
31 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1R1A1S1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Try next

COUNT TALON STINK INLET ROUET TORCH

Strategy after playing ERASE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ERASE:

14% chance
Suggested:
COUNT
9% chance
Suggested:
TALON
6% chance
Suggested:
STINK

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.2% →
COUNT 5.64 bits
8.7% →
TALON 5.17 bits
5.6% →
STINK 4.81 bits
5.1% →
INLET 5.04 bits
4.8% →
ROUET 4.02 bits
3.9% →
TORCH 4.93 bits
3.5% →
CAROL 4.55 bits
3.5% →
TOILE 4.61 bits
3.4% →
PRINT 4.08 bits
2.9% →
CLEAN 4.47 bits

Research on ERASE

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

Optimal play

Opening with ERASE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,868 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with ERASE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 IHRAYS.

Rhymes with PLACE SPACE GRACE CHASE TRACE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ERASE is a kind of kill or delete.

Synonyms delete

Opposites record

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ERASE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 5 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 52 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.2 of 5).

In a sentence

You can't erase the past.
© tatoeba.org contributor Scott (CC BY 2.0 FR)
One cannot erase the past.
© tatoeba.org contributor marshmallowcat (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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).