LAUGH
Yes, LAUGH was the Wordle answer on April 13, 2025 (Wordle #1394).
As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /lɐːf//lɑːf//laf/
- Noun
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An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.
“His deep laughs boomed through the room.”
- Noun
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Something that provokes mirth or scorn.
“Your new hat's an absolute laugh, dude.”
- Verb
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To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
“There were many laughing children running on the school grounds.”
- Verb
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To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.
“Don't laugh at my new hat, man!”
Alternative forms: laff, laughe, larf
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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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
Used oncePast Wordle answer: April 13, 2025 (#1394).
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LAUGH 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 77.9% of games, misses completely in 22.1%, and leaves about 201 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,215 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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First-turn measures
All four describe LAUGH 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 LAUGH 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 LAUGH in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
LAUGH can come back 92 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 LAUGH; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing LAUGH
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to LAUGH.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing LAUGH:
Research on LAUGH
Game-tree analysis and word research for LAUGH, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with LAUGH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,070 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 LAUGH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, LAUGH is a kind of communication or motion.
Synonyms joke laughter gag jest
Opposites cry
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- LAUGH sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 46 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 A1); among the first words English learners study.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 77 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (4.3 of 5).
In a sentence
All you do is laugh!
I don't like to laugh.
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; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).