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KNOWN

Yes, KNOWN was the Wordle answer on April 25, 2025 (Wordle #1406).

As an opener, it rules out about 75.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /nəʊn//naːn//noʊn/

Adjective

Identified as a specific type; famous, renowned.

“He was a known pickpocket.”

Adjective

Accepted, familiar, researched.

“At the time, Einstein's theory was unknown to most other scientists.”

Noun

Any fact or situation which is known or familiar.

“You have to tell the knowns from the unknowns.”

Noun

A constant or variable the value of which is already determined.

Alternative forms: knowne

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 25, 2025 (#1406).

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

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How KNOWN performs as a guess

KNOWN is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 54.1% of games, misses completely in 45.9%, and leaves about 568 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,193 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

K___N K in the 1st position and N in the 5th position K__W_ K in the 1st position and W in the 4th position _N__N N in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE TALER SAICE SLART CARLE SALET
Words starting with K Words ending with N

First-turn measures

3.15 Entropy (bits)
568 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
75.9% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KNOWN 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.

3.92 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#14,193 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KNOWN ranks #14,193 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
25
3 guesses
619
4 guesses
1,263
5 guesses
411
6 guesses
33

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
54%
Green tile
19%
All gray
46%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
K N O W N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches KNOWN in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

51 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1083
284
179
150
97
84
67
62
50
34
30
29
25
24
18
11
11
10
9
8
8
8
6
6
6
6
5
5
5
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KNOWN:

46% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
12% chance
Suggested:
TALER
8% chance
Suggested:
SAICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

45.9% →
RAILE 6.17 bits
12.0% →
TALER 5.28 bits
7.6% →
SAICE 5.28 bits
6.4% →
SLART 4.98 bits
4.1% →
CARLE 5.10 bits
3.6% →
SALET 5.37 bits
2.8% →
TRIDE 4.10 bits
2.6% →
SAGER 4.95 bits
2.1% →
IRATE 4.93 bits
1.4% →
SAULT 3.95 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5N1O1W4N1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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