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LIVER

Yes, LIVER was the Wordle answer on July 14, 2022 (Wordle #390).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈlɪvə//ˈlɪvɚ//ˈlɪvə(ɹ)/

Noun

A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.

“Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.”

Noun

This organ, as taken from animals used as food.

“I'd like some goose liver pate.”

Adjective

Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).

Adjective

comparative form of live: more live

“Seeing things on a big screen somehow makes them seem liver.”

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: July 14, 2022 (#390).

See the full page for that puzzle: July 14, 2022 (#390).

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

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How LIVER performs as a guess

LIVER 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 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 142 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,164 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___R L in the 1st position and R in the 5th position L__E_ L in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__R I in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position LI_ER L in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LIVER 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.

4.87 Entropy (bits)
142 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 76% of evaluated openers
1.08 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LIVER 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
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#7,164 Rank among openers
Opening with LIVER left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,164 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
79
3 guesses
818
4 guesses
1,185
5 guesses
252
6 guesses
17
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:
EILR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
26%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E D
L I N E R
L I V E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches LIVER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

LIVER can come back 112 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

339 answers
229 answers
216 answers
184 answers
149 answers
131 answers
112 answers
84 answers
74 answers
68 answers
64 answers
62 answers
61 answers
32 answers
32 answers
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26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
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20 answers
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17 answers
14 answers
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13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1I1V4E1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SAUNT COAST TEASE SAINT SLATE PITHY

Strategy after playing LIVER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LIVER:

14% chance
Suggested:
SAUNT
10% chance
Suggested:
COAST
9% chance
Suggested:
TEASE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.3% →
SAUNT 5.79 bits
9.6% →
COAST 5.56 bits
9.1% →
TEASE 5.51 bits
7.8% →
COAST 5.11 bits
6.3% →
COAST 4.92 bits
5.5% →
SAINT 5.50 bits
4.7% →
SLATE 4.57 bits
3.5% →
COAST 3.59 bits
3.1% →
PITHY 3.90 bits
2.9% →
SAINT 4.57 bits

Research on LIVER

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

Optimal play

Opening with LIVER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,505 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 LIVER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it LIHVUR.

Rhymes with RIVER GIVER

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LIVER is a kind of organ or organs.

Synonyms colored coloured colorful colourful

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LIVER sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 15 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.

In a sentence

Your liver would like it.
© tatoeba.org contributor DJ_Saidez (CC BY 2.0 FR)
She needs a new liver.
© tatoeba.org contributor Eccles17 (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.