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FALSE

Yes, FALSE was the Wordle answer on January 30, 2025 (Wordle #1321).

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /fɔːls//fɒls//fɔls/

Adjective

Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.

Adjective

Based on factually incorrect premises.

“false legislation, false punishment”

Verb

To incorrectly decode noise as if it were a valid signal.

Verb

To begin a race before being instructed to do so; to do a false start.

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: January 30, 2025 (#1321).

See the full page for that puzzle: January 30, 2025 (#1321).

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

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How FALSE performs as a guess

FALSE 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 86.6% of games, misses completely in 13.4%, and leaves about 112 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,272 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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.

F___E F in the 1st position and E in the 5th position F__S_ F in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FALSE 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.

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

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FALSE 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,272 Rank among openers
Opening with FALSE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #2,272 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
83
3 guesses
900
4 guesses
1,193
5 guesses
164
6 guesses
11
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AELS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
41%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S M I L Y
F A L S E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FALSE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

FALSE can come back 116 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

319 answers
219 answers
134 answers
130 answers
120 answers
120 answers
103 answers
75 answers
73 answers
71 answers
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52 answers
47 answers
42 answers
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26 answers
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23 answers
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21 answers
18 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4A1L1S1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

COUNT TENOR TRAIN GRICE SNOUT RONTE

Strategy after playing FALSE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FALSE:

13% chance
Suggested:
COUNT
9% chance
Suggested:
TENOR
6% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.4% →
COUNT 5.82 bits
9.2% →
TENOR 5.22 bits
5.6% →
TRAIN 5.35 bits
5.5% →
GRICE 4.37 bits
5.1% →
SNOUT 5.03 bits
5.1% →
RONTE 4.11 bits
4.3% →
COULD 4.84 bits
3.2% →
ALTAR 4.24 bits
3.1% →
TREAD 4.70 bits
3.0% →
REVEL 4.35 bits

Research on FALSE

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

Optimal play

Opening with FALSE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,784 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 FALSE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it FAWLS.

Related meanings

Synonyms fake assumed mistaken sour pretended faux

Opposites true RIGHT natural correct

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FALSE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 43 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 29 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (3.1 of 5).

In a sentence

What you said was false.
© tatoeba.org contributor Eccles17 (CC BY 2.0 FR)
What he said is false.
© tatoeba.org contributor Kiepier (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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).