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LEARN

Yes, LEARN was the Wordle answer on December 28, 2023 (Wordle #922).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /lɜːn//lɝn//lɑː(ɹ)n/

Verb

To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.

Verb

To attend a course or other educational activity.

Noun

The act of learning something.

Alternative forms: larn, learne

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: December 28, 2023 (#922).

See the full page for that puzzle: December 28, 2023 (#922).

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

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How LEARN performs as a guess

LEARN 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 90.6% of games, misses completely in 9.4%, and leaves about 79 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #235 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 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.

L___N L in the 1st position and N in the 5th position L__R_ L in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _E__N E in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LEARN 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.

5.65 Entropy (bits)
79 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.7% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.30 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LEARN 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.

3.57 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#235 Rank among openers
Opening with LEARN left 4 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 3.57 average. It ranks #235 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
99
3 guesses
1,000
4 guesses
1,077
5 guesses
155
6 guesses
18
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AELNR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
91%
Green tile
32%
All gray
9%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B L A N D
L E A R N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches LEARN in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

LEARN can come back 131 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

223 answers
160 answers
122 answers
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104 answers
88 answers
72 answers
64 answers
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18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1E1A1R1N1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

HOIST TOISE GROUT SOULY COUNT PATSY

Strategy after playing LEARN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LEARN:

9% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
7% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
5% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.4% →
HOIST 5.76 bits
6.7% →
TOISE 4.61 bits
5.1% →
TOISE 5.42 bits
5.0% →
GROUT 5.02 bits
4.8% →
SOULY 4.65 bits
4.4% →
COUNT 5.00 bits
4.4% →
PATSY 4.66 bits
3.7% →
SLEET 4.66 bits
3.0% →
ATOLL 4.48 bits
2.7% →
TAROT 4.18 bits

Research on LEARN

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

Optimal play

Opening with LEARN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.61 guesses and ranks #358 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 LEARN can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.57, at or below the proven-optimal 3.61, 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

One syllable Say it LURN.

Rhymes with STERN CHURN YEARN SPURN

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LEARN is a kind of win or move.

Synonyms see take read WATCH CHECK STUDY

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LEARN sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 148 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 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 43 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.

In a sentence

You have to learn more.
© tatoeba.org contributor mhenderson5 (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Learn how to do it.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (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; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).