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LOYAL

Yes, LOYAL was the Wordle answer on September 26, 2023 (Wordle #829).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈlɔɪəl/

Adjective

Having or demonstrating undivided and constant support for someone or something.

“Dogs are very loyal animals, which is why they make wonderful pets.”

Adjective

Firm in allegiance to a person or institution; allegiant.

Alternative forms: loyall

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: September 26, 2023 (#829).

See the full page for that puzzle: September 26, 2023 (#829).

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

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How LOYAL performs as a guess

LOYAL 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 78.5% of games, misses completely in 21.5%, and leaves about 225 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,717 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___L L in the 1st position and L in the 5th position L__A_ L in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _O__L O in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LOYAL 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.

4.31 Entropy (bits)
225 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 39% of evaluated openers
1.64 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LOYAL 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#10,717 Rank among openers
Opening with LOYAL left 4 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 3.78 average. It ranks #10,717 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
770
4 guesses
1,211
5 guesses
299
6 guesses
22
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:
ALO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
26%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L U C I D
L O Y A L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches LOYAL in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

LOYAL can come back 84 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

510 answers
367 answers
213 answers
143 answers
138 answers
128 answers
103 answers
86 answers
71 answers
63 answers
46 answers
42 answers
35 answers
27 answers
27 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
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16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1O1Y4A1L1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

TRINE TARSE CRUET SIREN SLICE SPALE

Strategy after playing LOYAL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LOYAL:

21% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
15% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.5% →
TRINE 6.28 bits
15.5% →
TARSE 5.50 bits
9.0% →
TRINE 5.37 bits
6.0% →
CRUET 4.91 bits
5.8% →
SIREN 4.57 bits
5.4% →
SLICE 5.10 bits
4.3% →
SPALE 4.38 bits
3.6% →
TARSE 4.12 bits
3.0% →
BARON 4.63 bits
2.7% →
TREAD 4.41 bits

Research on LOYAL

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

Optimal play

Opening with LOYAL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,713 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 LOYAL can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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 LOYUHL.

Rhymes with ROYAL

Related meanings

Synonyms fast firm patriotic faithful hardcore nationalistic

Opposites unfaithful

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LOYAL sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 16 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.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 35 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.

In a sentence

I am loyal to my friends.
© tatoeba.org contributor mailohilohi (CC BY 2.0 FR)
My friends are very loyal.
© 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).