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IDLER

Yes, IDLER was the Wordle answer on April 30, 2025 (Wordle #1411).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ̯dləː//ˈaɪ̯dlɚ/

Noun

One who idles; one who spends their time in inaction.

Noun

One who idles; a lazy person; a sluggard.

Adjective

comparative form of idle: more idle

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: April 30, 2025 (#1411).

See the full page for that puzzle: April 30, 2025 (#1411).

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

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How IDLER performs as a guess

IDLER 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 87.7% of games, misses completely in 12.3%, and leaves about 120 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,850 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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.

I___R I in the 1st position and R in the 5th position I__E_ I in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _D__R D in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe IDLER 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.

5.06 Entropy (bits)
120 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 86% of evaluated openers
0.89 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How IDLER 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#3,850 Rank among openers
Opening with IDLER left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,850 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
927
4 guesses
1,135
5 guesses
209
6 guesses
15
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:
EILR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
22%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E D
I D L E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches IDLER in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

IDLER can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

291 answers
195 answers
191 answers
177 answers
152 answers
144 answers
106 answers
85 answers
70 answers
62 answers
57 answers
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17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1D2L1E1R1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

COAST TEASE SAINT SLATE SENTE SLANT

Strategy after playing IDLER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing IDLER:

12% chance
Suggested:
COAST
8% chance
Suggested:
COAST
8% chance
Suggested:
TEASE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.3% →
COAST 5.86 bits
8.2% →
COAST 5.75 bits
8.0% →
TEASE 5.56 bits
7.5% →
SAINT 5.42 bits
6.4% →
COAST 5.26 bits
6.1% →
COAST 4.99 bits
4.5% →
SLATE 4.84 bits
3.6% →
COAST 3.59 bits
2.9% →
SENTE 4.67 bits
2.6% →
SLANT 4.39 bits

Research on IDLER

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

Optimal play

Opening with IDLER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,262 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 IDLER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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

Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it YDUHLUR.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, IDLER is a kind of actor.

Synonyms bum

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
IDLER sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.6 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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).