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FORUM

Yes, FORUM was the Wordle answer on October 14, 2025 (Wordle #1578).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːɹəm//ˈfɔɹəm//ˈfoːɹəm/

Noun

A place for discussion.

Noun

A gathering for the purpose of discussion; a symposium.

Alternative forms: 4m, 4rum

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Latin forum (“public market place, forum”). Doublet of fuero and door.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it FAWRUHM.

Rhymes with AURUM

Related meanings

Synonyms assembly

In a sentence

You're in the wrong forum.
© tatoeba.org contributor shekitten (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The forum is open to the public.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use FORUM in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 88.8% of possible answers.

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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: October 14, 2025 (#1578).

See the full page for that puzzle: October 14, 2025 (#1578).

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

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How FORUM performs as a guess

FORUM 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 72.8% of games, misses completely in 27.2%, and leaves about 267 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,506 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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___M F in the 1st position and M in the 5th position F__U_ F in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _O__M O in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FORUM 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.

4.27 Entropy (bits)
267 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FORUM 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,506 Rank among openers
Opening with FORUM solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,506 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
866
4 guesses
1,182
5 guesses
241
6 guesses
9

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ORU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
26%
All gray
27%

Example solver route

R O A T E
M Y R R H
F O R U M

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FORUM in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

FORUM can come back 92 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

648 answers
321 answers
172 answers
171 answers
116 answers
108 answers
96 answers
68 answers
61 answers
42 answers
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34 answers
29 answers
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25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
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16 answers
13 answers
11 answers
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10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4O1R1U1M3
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SLATE SATED SLANE SALET LEANT DRONE

Strategy after playing FORUM

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FORUM:

27% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
13% chance
Suggested:
SATED
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.2% →
SLATE 6.34 bits
13.5% →
SATED 5.36 bits
7.2% →
SLANE 5.31 bits
7.2% →
SALET 5.28 bits
4.9% →
LEANT 4.53 bits
4.5% →
DRONE 4.39 bits
4.0% →
LIANE 5.29 bits
2.9% →
CASTE 4.86 bits
2.6% →
STURE 4.44 bits
1.8% →
STILE 4.74 bits

Research on FORUM

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

Optimal play

Opening with FORUM, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #7,814 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.87 guesses at best and is rank #3,472 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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
FORUM sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 24 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 12, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 48 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.5 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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).