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INNER

Yes, INNER was the Wordle answer on November 10, 2024 (Wordle #1240).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɪnə//ˈɪnɚ/[ɪ̃ɾ̃ɚ]

Adjective

Being or occurring (farther) inside, situated farther in, located (situated) or happening on the inside of something, situated within or farther within contained within something.

“inner door; inner room; inner sanctum; inner surface”

Adjective

Close to the centre, located near or closer to center.

“the inner suburbs”

Noun

An inner part.

Noun

A duvet, excluding the cover.

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: November 10, 2024 (#1240).

See the full page for that puzzle: November 10, 2024 (#1240).

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

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How INNER performs as a guess

INNER 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 83.0% of games, misses completely in 17.0%, and leaves about 178 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,550 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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 _N__R N in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe INNER 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.

4.52 Entropy (bits)
178 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 53% of evaluated openers
1.42 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How INNER 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#10,550 Rank among openers
Opening with INNER left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,550 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
764
4 guesses
1,223
5 guesses
274
6 guesses
35
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EINR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
25%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E D
B R I E F
I N N E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches INNER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

INNER can come back 85 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

404 answers
304 answers
215 answers
202 answers
163 answers
102 answers
89 answers
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78 answers
71 answers
59 answers
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27 answers
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11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1N1N1E1R1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

SAULT SLATE COAST SHALT TEASE STILE

Strategy after playing INNER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing INNER:

17% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
13% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.0% →
SAULT 5.92 bits
12.8% →
SLATE 5.90 bits
9.1% →
COAST 5.58 bits
8.5% →
SHALT 5.21 bits
6.9% →
TEASE 4.76 bits
4.3% →
COAST 3.55 bits
3.7% →
COAST 4.94 bits
3.5% →
STILE 4.52 bits
3.3% →
SHALT 4.43 bits
3.0% →
BETEL 4.35 bits

Research on INNER

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

Optimal play

Opening with INNER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,334 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 INNER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it IHNUR.

Related meanings

Synonyms inside internal interior intimate privileged exclusive

Opposites OUTER external inclusive outward

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
INNER sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 32 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 sight (2.1 of 5).

In a sentence

I listen to my inner voice.
© tatoeba.org contributor rul (CC BY 2.0 FR)
My inner voice helps me.
© tatoeba.org contributor rul (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).