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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

LYING

Yes, LYING was the Wordle answer on September 19, 2021 (Wordle #92).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/

Verb

present participle and gerund of lie (“to rest in a horizontal position”)

Noun

The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.

Verb

present participle and gerund of lie (“to intentionally give false information”)

Noun

An act or telling a lie or falsehood; the practice of telling lies.

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 19, 2021 (#92).

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

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How LYING performs as a guess

LYING 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 73.4% of games, misses completely in 26.6%, and leaves about 246 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,933 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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__N_ L in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _Y__G Y in the 2nd position and G in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE STOAE SARED SATER SOARE TRACE
Words starting with L Words ending with G

First-turn measures

4.35 Entropy (bits)
246 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 42% of evaluated openers
1.60 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LYING 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#4,933 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LYING ranks #4,933 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
901
4 guesses
1,192
5 guesses
193
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
1 vowels
Common:
ILN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
21%
All gray
27%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
L Y I N G

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches LYING in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

87 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

628
269
170
144
138
108
88
69
63
53
50
49
34
31
28
28
24
24
24
23
21
16
16
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11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LYING:

27% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
11% chance
Suggested:
STOAE
7% chance
Suggested:
SARED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.6% →
TARSE 6.44 bits
11.4% →
STOAE 5.39 bits
7.2% →
SARED 5.14 bits
6.1% →
SATER 5.23 bits
5.9% →
SOARE 5.38 bits
4.6% →
TRACE 5.11 bits
3.7% →
URATE 5.16 bits
2.9% →
CATER 4.68 bits
2.7% →
TARSE 4.65 bits
2.2% →
SALUE 4.11 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1Y4I1N1G2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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