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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

LORIS

Yes, LORIS was the Wordle answer on July 18, 2025 (Wordle #1490).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈlɔːɹɪs//ˈlɔɹɪs/

Noun

Any of several small, slow-moving primates, of the subfamily Lorisinae, found in India and southeast Asia.

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 18, 2025 (#1490).

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

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How LORIS performs as a guess

LORIS is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 89.7% of games, misses completely in 10.3%, and leaves about 103 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,472 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

L___S L in the 1st position and S in the 5th position L__I_ L in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

MEANT CADET CABLE STANE THANE BAILE
Words starting with L Words ending with S

First-turn measures

5.19 Entropy (bits)
103 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.76 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LORIS 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#1,472 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LORIS ranks #1,472 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
993
4 guesses
1,100
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
16
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ILORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
27%
All gray
10%

Example solver route

R O A T E
D U C H Y
F O R G O
L O R I S

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches LORIS in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

109 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

244
205
170
161
129
93
93
88
72
70
68
62
55
54
52
52
48
41
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37
30
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24
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19

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LORIS:

10% chance
Suggested:
MEANT
9% chance
Suggested:
CADET
7% chance
Suggested:
CABLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.3% →
MEANT 5.74 bits
8.7% →
CADET 5.32 bits
7.2% →
CABLE 5.21 bits
6.8% →
STANE 5.52 bits
5.5% →
THANE 5.26 bits
3.9% →
CADET 4.66 bits
3.9% →
CADET 4.34 bits
3.7% →
THANE 4.26 bits
3.1% →
THANE 4.93 bits
3.0% →
BAILE 4.30 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1O1R1I1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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