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METRO

Yes, METRO was the Wordle answer on April 26, 2023 (Wordle #676).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmɛtɹəʊ//ˈmɛtɹoʊ//mɛʈ.ro/

Noun

A rapid transit rail transport system, or a train in such systems, generally underground and serving a metropolitan area.

“He is going to the stadium by metro.”

Noun

An urban rapid transit rail transport system, normally with lighter track and light trains (i.e. an S-Bahn or similar), or a train in such systems.

Adjective

metropolitan

Alternative forms: métro

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 26, 2023 (#676).

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

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How METRO performs as a guess

METRO 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 86.9% of games, misses completely in 13.1%, and leaves about 119 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,429 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.

M___O M in the 1st position and O in the 5th position M__R_ M in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _E__O E in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe METRO 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.

5.13 Entropy (bits)
119 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 89% of evaluated openers
0.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How METRO 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#2,429 Rank among openers
Opening with METRO left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,429 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
88
3 guesses
917
4 guesses
1,142
5 guesses
189
6 guesses
15
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
25%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
O T H E R
M E T R O

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches METRO in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

METRO can come back 123 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

310 answers
223 answers
162 answers
152 answers
129 answers
112 answers
104 answers
83 answers
81 answers
79 answers
75 answers
52 answers
52 answers
50 answers
49 answers
36 answers
36 answers
35 answers
33 answers
29 answers
27 answers
24 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3E1T1R1O1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SLAIN SLANE SAICE COLON SAINT GRAIN

Strategy after playing METRO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing METRO:

13% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
7% chance
Suggested:
SAICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.1% →
SLAIN 5.93 bits
9.4% →
SLANE 5.49 bits
6.8% →
SAICE 4.64 bits
6.4% →
COLON 5.02 bits
5.4% →
SAINT 5.52 bits
4.7% →
GRAIN 4.73 bits
4.4% →
SLANT 5.01 bits
3.5% →
ARSON 4.16 bits
3.4% →
LIANE 4.46 bits
3.3% →
SONLY 4.37 bits

Research on METRO

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

Optimal play

Opening with METRO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,515 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.76 guesses at best and is rank #471 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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 MEHTROH.

Rhymes with RETRO

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, METRO is a kind of railway.

Synonyms tube underground subway

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
METRO sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 15 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.5 of 5).

In a sentence

The metro is on the right!
© tatoeba.org contributor cntrational (CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do I get to the metro?
© tatoeba.org contributor sundown (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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).