METRO
Yes, METRO was the Wordle answer on April 26, 2023 (Wordle #676).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛtɹəʊ//ˈmɛtɹoʊ//mɛʈ.ro/
- Noun
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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
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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
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metropolitan
Alternative forms: métro
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From French métro, clipping of métropolitain (from Ancient Greek μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”)), as in the Chemin de fer métropolitain, an early name for the Paris Métro. This name was a direct translation of "Metropolitan Railway", which was the original name of the earliest part of the London Underground, constructed in 1863.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it MEHTROH.
Rhymes with RETRO
Related meanings
Synonyms tube underground subway
In a sentence
The metro is on the right!
How do I get to the metro?
Use METRO in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: April 26, 2023 (#676).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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METRO appeared in SUBTERRANEAN TRANSIT (yellow group).
How METRO performs as a guess
METRO is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 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
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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.
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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
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:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for METRO; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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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:
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.
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).
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).