MIGHT
Yes, MIGHT was the Wordle answer on September 2, 2025 (Wordle #1536).
As an opener, it rules out about 88.0% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /maɪt/[maɪt][mɐɪt]
- Noun
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Power, strength, force, or influence held by a person or group.
- Noun
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Physical strength or force.
“He pushed with all his might, but still it would not move.”
- Verb
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simple past of may
“He asked me if he might go to the party, but I haven't decided yet.”
- Verb
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Used to indicate conditional or possible actions; would perhaps/maybe.
“Well, I might go to a party, but I haven't decided yet.”
Alternative forms: mite, mought, mout, med
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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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: September 2, 2025 (#1536).
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MIGHT 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 70.1% of games, misses completely in 29.9%, and leaves about 284 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,683 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe MIGHT 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 MIGHT 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 MIGHT in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
MIGHT can come back 86 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 MIGHT; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing MIGHT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to MIGHT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing MIGHT:
Research on MIGHT
Game-tree analysis and word research for MIGHT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with MIGHT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,242 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 MIGHT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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
- MIGHT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 457 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 35 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
In a sentence
And who might you be?
I might not like it.
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).