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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

GHOST

Yes, GHOST was the Wordle answer on June 14, 2025 (Wordle #1456).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡəʊst//ɡoʊst//ɡɐʉst/

Noun

A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.

“Everyone believed that the ghost of an old lady haunted the crypt.”

Noun

Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.

“not a ghost of a chance”

Adjective

In the form be ghost: not present or involved; absent, gone.

Verb

Of a disembodied soul: to appear (somewhere or to someone) in the form of an apparition; to haunt.

Alternative forms: ghoast, gost

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: June 14, 2025 (#1456).

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

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How GHOST performs as a guess

GHOST is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 74.8% of games, misses completely in 25.2%, and leaves about 212 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,936 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

G___T G in the 1st position and T in the 5th position G__S_ G in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _H__T H in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE MARLE TARTE ARIEL CRANE CARLE
Words starting with G Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.65 Entropy (bits)
212 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 61% of evaluated openers
1.30 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GHOST 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
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#1,936 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GHOST ranks #1,936 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
995
4 guesses
1,117
5 guesses
179
6 guesses
11
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
OST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
33%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P U N C H
G H O S T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GHOST in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

96 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

594
195
173
144
97
91
91
72
64
54
52
51
44
40
33
32
30
30
30
30
23
23
18
17
17
16
16
15
14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GHOST:

25% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
8% chance
Suggested:
MARLE
7% chance
Suggested:
RAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.2% →
RAILE 6.22 bits
8.3% →
MARLE 5.28 bits
7.3% →
RAILE 5.50 bits
6.1% →
TARTE 5.49 bits
4.1% →
ARIEL 5.23 bits
3.9% →
CRANE 4.63 bits
3.9% →
RAILE 5.39 bits
3.1% →
RAILE 4.54 bits
2.7% →
CARLE 4.85 bits
2.3% →
LAIDE 4.99 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2H4O1S1T1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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