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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess F tier opener

FUGUE

Yes, FUGUE was the Wordle answer on November 9, 2025 (Wordle #1604).

As an opener, it rules out about 83.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfyɡ//ˈfjuːɡ/

Noun

A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.

Noun

Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.

Verb

To improvise, in singing, by introducing vocal ornamentation to fill gaps etc.

Verb

To spend time in a dissociative fugue state.

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: November 9, 2025 (#1604).

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

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How FUGUE performs as a guess

FUGUE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 68.2% of games, misses completely in 31.8%, and leaves about 387 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,740 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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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__U_ F in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _U__E U in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL ALTER ROAST CLARY SLANT ROANY
Words starting with F Words ending with E

First-turn measures

3.58 Entropy (bits)
387 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
83.6% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FUGUE 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.

3.88 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#13,740 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FUGUE ranks #13,740 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
642
4 guesses
1,249
5 guesses
391
6 guesses
28

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
34%
All gray
32%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N G
A W F U L
F U G U E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FUGUE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

64 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

751
482
269
105
101
89
56
51
34
34
31
30
30
28
24
19
18
18
17
17
16
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7
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6
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FUGUE:

32% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
20% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
11% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.8% →
TRAIL 5.89 bits
20.4% →
ALTER 5.24 bits
11.4% →
ROAST 5.07 bits
4.5% →
CLARY 4.21 bits
4.3% →
SLANT 4.95 bits
3.8% →
ROANY 5.03 bits
2.4% →
SLART 4.82 bits
2.2% →
ARIEL 3.90 bits
1.4% →
SCOUT 4.38 bits
1.4% →
SLART 3.81 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4U1G2U1E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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