5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

MERGE

Yes, MERGE was the Wordle answer on April 9, 2024 (Wordle #1025).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /mɜːd͡ʒ//mɝd͡ʒ/

Verb

To combine into a whole.

“Headquarters merged the operations of the three divisions.”

Verb

To blend gradually into something else.

“The lanes of traffic merged.”

Noun

The joining together of multiple sources.

“There are often accidents at that traffic merge.”

Noun

Within the Minimalist Program, a fundamental operation of syntactic construction

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: April 9, 2024 (#1025).

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

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How MERGE performs as a guess

MERGE 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 73.7% of games, misses completely in 26.3%, and leaves about 237 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,348 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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

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Useful pattern pages

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

M___E M in the 1st position and E in the 5th position M__G_ M in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SAINT TRAIN SLANT ALIEN SOLAR SOILY
Words starting with M Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.44 Entropy (bits)
237 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 48% of evaluated openers
1.50 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MERGE 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
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#7,348 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MERGE ranks #7,348 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
825
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
235
6 guesses
11
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
36%
All gray
26%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P R I S M
M E R G E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MERGE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

91 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

621
244
171
156
141
83
77
75
73
70
46
40
37
29
25
24
21
20
20
19
19
19
18
16
16
15
13
13
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MERGE:

26% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
10% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.3% →
SAINT 6.02 bits
10.3% →
TRAIN 5.29 bits
7.3% →
SLANT 5.44 bits
6.6% →
ALIEN 5.13 bits
6.0% →
SOLAR 4.04 bits
3.5% →
SOILY 5.00 bits
3.3% →
COAST 4.86 bits
3.2% →
SOAPY 4.77 bits
3.1% →
SHALT 4.69 bits
3.0% →
COAST 4.37 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3E1R1G2E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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