LEVEL
Yes, LEVEL was the Wordle answer on August 15, 2025 (Wordle #1518).
As an opener, it rules out about 82.2% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈlɛvəl/[ˈlɛvəl] ~ [ˈlɛvl̩]
- Adjective
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The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
“This table isn't quite level; see how this marble rolls off it?”
- Adjective
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At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
“We tried to hang the pictures so that the bottom of the frames were level with the dark line in the wallpaper.”
- Noun
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A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
“Hand me the level so I can tell if this is correctly installed.”
- Noun
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A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
“By the end of the day, we'd dug down to the level of the old basement floor.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
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Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: August 15, 2025 (#1518).
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LEVEL 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 62.6% of games, misses completely in 37.4%, and leaves about 423 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,248 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe LEVEL 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 LEVEL 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 LEVEL in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.
Feedback distribution
LEVEL can come back 69 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 LEVEL; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Strategy after playing LEVEL
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to LEVEL.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing LEVEL:
Research on LEVEL
Game-tree analysis and word research for LEVEL, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with LEVEL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.91 guesses and ranks #13,930 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 LEVEL can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.92; proven optimal play reaches 3.91. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.
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 LEHVUHL.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, LEVEL is a kind of property or rank.
Synonyms even POINT STORY STAGE charge degree
Opposites RAISE vertical inclined uneven
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- LEVEL sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 257 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 (4.6 of 5).
In a sentence
We are on the same level.
I'm going to level with you.
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).