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IDIOM

Yes, IDIOM was the Wordle answer on May 30, 2025 (Wordle #1441).

As an opener, it rules out about 83.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɪdiəm/[ˈɪdɪəm][ˈɪɾiəm]

Noun

A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people.

“In English, idiom requires the indefinite article in a phrase such as "she's an engineer", whereas in Spanish, idiom forbids it.”

Noun

A language or language variety; specifically, a restricted dialect used in a given historical period, context, etc.

“In the idiom of the day, they were sutlers, although today they'd probably be called vendors.”

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: May 30, 2025 (#1441).

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

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How IDIOM performs as a guess

IDIOM 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 65.6% of games, misses completely in 34.4%, and leaves about 383 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,461 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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.

I___M I in the 1st position and M in the 5th position I__O_ I in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _D__M D in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

Try next

LEAST TORSE SALET SLANE DEARE PARLE
Words starting with I Words ending with M

First-turn measures

3.58 Entropy (bits)
383 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
83.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 9% of evaluated openers
2.37 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How IDIOM 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#12,461 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, IDIOM ranks #12,461 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
680
4 guesses
1,308
5 guesses
307
6 guesses
18
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
IO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
20%
All gray
34%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
I D I O M

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches IDIOM in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

60 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

811
344
205
174
140
117
79
65
49
49
37
32
23
20
19
16
14
14
12
11
9
9
8
7
7
6
6
6
6
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing IDIOM:

34% chance
Suggested:
LEAST
15% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
9% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.4% →
LEAST 6.32 bits
14.6% →
TORSE 5.41 bits
8.7% →
SALET 5.12 bits
7.4% →
SLANE 4.96 bits
5.9% →
DEARE 5.35 bits
5.0% →
PARLE 5.18 bits
3.4% →
TALER 4.99 bits
2.8% →
DRONE 4.38 bits
2.1% →
MATEY 4.26 bits
2.1% →
LATER 4.36 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1D2I1O1M3
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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