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LEDGE

Yes, LEDGE was the Wordle answer on April 8, 2023 (Wordle #658).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /lɛd͡ʒ//led͡ʒ/

Noun

A narrow surface projecting horizontally from a wall, cliff, or other surface.

Noun

A shelf on which articles may be laid.

Verb

To cause to have, or to develop, a ledge (during mining, canal construction, building, etc).

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 8, 2023 (#658).

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

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How LEDGE performs as a guess

LEDGE 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 72.4% of games, misses completely in 27.6%, and leaves about 261 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,655 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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___E L in the 1st position and E in the 5th position L__G_ L in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LEDGE 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.

4.34 Entropy (bits)
261 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 41% of evaluated openers
1.60 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LEDGE 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#7,655 Rank among openers
Opening with LEDGE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,655 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
798
4 guesses
1,254
5 guesses
229
6 guesses
10
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:
EL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
33%
All gray
28%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N G
B U G L E
L E D G E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches LEDGE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

LEDGE can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

655 answers
261 answers
202 answers
190 answers
107 answers
92 answers
76 answers
66 answers
60 answers
35 answers
33 answers
32 answers
31 answers
31 answers
28 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1E1D2G2E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

COAST SONAR ROAST DRAIN SAINT SHART

Strategy after playing LEDGE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LEDGE:

28% chance
Suggested:
COAST
11% chance
Suggested:
COAST
9% chance
Suggested:
SONAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.6% →
COAST 6.01 bits
11.0% →
COAST 5.13 bits
8.5% →
SONAR 5.21 bits
8.0% →
ROAST 5.22 bits
4.5% →
DRAIN 5.18 bits
3.9% →
SAINT 5.22 bits
3.2% →
SHART 4.80 bits
2.8% →
PLEAT 4.34 bits
2.5% →
SLANT 4.23 bits
1.5% →
DINER 4.13 bits

Research on LEDGE

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

Optimal play

Opening with LEDGE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,994 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 LEDGE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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 LEHJ.

Rhymes with HEDGE WEDGE SEDGE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LEDGE is a kind of ridge.

Synonyms SHELF

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LEDGE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 72 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).

In a sentence

Tom moved away from the ledge.
© tatoeba.org contributor Hybrid (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Tom stepped away from the ledge.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).