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GLARE

Yes, GLARE was the Wordle answer on October 29, 2025 (Wordle #1593).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡlɛɚ//ɡlɛə//ɡleː/

Noun

An intense, blinding light.

Noun

Showy brilliance; gaudiness.

Verb

To stare angrily.

“He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.”

Verb

To shine brightly.

“The sun glared down on the desert sand.”

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: October 29, 2025 (#1593).

See the full page for that puzzle: October 29, 2025 (#1593).

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

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How GLARE performs as a guess

GLARE 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 88.2% of games, misses completely in 11.8%, and leaves about 92 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,823 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.

G___E G in the 1st position and E in the 5th position G__R_ G in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _L__E L in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GLARE 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.

5.52 Entropy (bits)
92 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 99% of evaluated openers
0.42 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GLARE 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% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#1,823 Rank among openers
Opening with GLARE solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #1,823 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
84
3 guesses
950
4 guesses
1,121
5 guesses
179
6 guesses
19
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:
AELR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
39%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C R I S P
B A G E L
G L A R E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GLARE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

GLARE can come back 126 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

280 answers
153 answers
141 answers
131 answers
130 answers
97 answers
90 answers
73 answers
71 answers
65 answers
62 answers
53 answers
51 answers
48 answers
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31 answers
28 answers
25 answers
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24 answers
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18 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2L1A1R1E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

HOIST SORER NASTY ONSET TORCH SIENT

Strategy after playing GLARE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GLARE:

12% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
6% chance
Suggested:
SORER
6% chance
Suggested:
NASTY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.8% →
HOIST 5.82 bits
6.4% →
SORER 4.05 bits
5.9% →
NASTY 4.78 bits
5.5% →
ONSET 5.14 bits
5.5% →
TORCH 4.83 bits
4.1% →
SIENT 4.89 bits
3.8% →
SILLY 4.93 bits
3.1% →
NATAL 4.34 bits
3.0% →
MAYOR 4.17 bits
2.7% →
WHEEL 4.06 bits

Research on GLARE

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

Optimal play

Opening with GLARE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #710 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 GLARE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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 GLEHR.

Rhymes with THEIR THERE WHERE SHARE AWARE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GLARE is a kind of brightness or stare.

Synonyms spotlight BLAZE brilliance limelight

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GLARE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.4 of 5).

In a sentence

There's a lot of glare.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)
He shot me down with a glare.
© tatoeba.org contributor Sladey (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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).