HONOR
HONOR is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈɒn.ə//ˈɑ.nɚ//ˈɔn.ə/
- Noun
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Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful).
“The crowds gave the returning general much honor and praise.”
- Noun
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The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity.
“He was a most perfect knight, for he had great honor and chivalry.”
- Verb
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To think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of.
“The freedom fighters will be forever remembered and honored by the people.”
- Verb
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To conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request, or the like).
“I trusted you, but you have not honored your promise.”
Alternative forms: honour
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English honour, honor, honur, from Anglo-Norman honour, honur, from Old French honor, from Latin honor.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it AHNUR.
Rhymes with GONER
Related meanings
Synonyms respect AWARD honour reward observe purity
In a sentence
This is a great honor.
I think it's an honor.
Use HONOR in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 89.5% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.
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See what the public sample says →HONOR in Connections
3 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #718
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HONOR appeared in SALUTE (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #490
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HONOR appeared in ___ ROLL (purple group).
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· Puzzle #476
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HONOR appeared in MAKE GOOD ON, AS A PROMISE (yellow group).
How HONOR performs as a guess
HONOR 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 74.3% of games, misses completely in 25.7%, and leaves about 251 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,574 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe HONOR 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How HONOR 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches HONOR in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
HONOR can come back 87 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for HONOR; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing HONOR
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to HONOR.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing HONOR:
Research on HONOR
Game-tree analysis and word research for HONOR, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with HONOR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,038 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 HONOR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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
- HONOR sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 49 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 A2); among the first words English learners study.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with internal bodily sensation (3.2 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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).