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LOOSE

Yes, LOOSE was the Wordle answer on August 15, 2026 (Wordle #1883).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /luːs//ˈlʉs/

Verb

To let loose, to free from restraints.

Verb

To unfasten, to loosen.

Adjective

Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.

“This wheelbarrow has a loose wheel.”

Adjective

Not held or packaged together.

“You can buy apples in a pack, but they are cheaper loose.”

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: August 15, 2026 (#1883).

See the full page for that puzzle: August 15, 2026 (#1883).

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

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How LOOSE performs as a guess

LOOSE 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 84.7% of games, misses completely in 15.3%, and leaves about 147 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,028 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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__S_ L in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LOOSE 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.

4.84 Entropy (bits)
147 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LOOSE 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#8,028 Rank among openers
Opening with LOOSE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #8,028 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
808
4 guesses
1,207
5 guesses
249
6 guesses
20
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
3 vowels
Common:
ELOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
42%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
L O O S E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches LOOSE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

LOOSE can come back 93 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

363 answers
292 answers
165 answers
159 answers
142 answers
109 answers
91 answers
89 answers
74 answers
58 answers
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21 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1O1O1S1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

TRAIN DETER FLAIL REACT STAIR RENAL

Strategy after playing LOOSE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LOOSE:

15% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
12% chance
Suggested:
DETER
7% chance
Suggested:
FLAIL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.3% →
TRAIN 5.97 bits
12.3% →
DETER 5.42 bits
7.0% →
FLAIL 4.87 bits
6.7% →
REACT 4.58 bits
6.0% →
STAIR 5.03 bits
4.6% →
RENAL 4.53 bits
3.8% →
RAINY 4.16 bits
3.7% →
MANOR 5.17 bits
3.1% →
STEER 4.75 bits
2.4% →
BAILE 3.89 bits

Research on LOOSE

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

Optimal play

Opening with LOOSE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,283 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.90 guesses at best and is rank #4,136 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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 LOOS.

Rhymes with ABUSE JUICE GOOSE MOOSE TRUCE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LOOSE is a kind of change or release.

Synonyms free open LIGHT easy release liberal

Opposites compact TIGHT fine official

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LOOSE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 29 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.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 47 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with touch (3.4 of 5).

In a sentence

He is still on the loose.
© tatoeba.org contributor vvv123 (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I tried to get loose.
© 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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).