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

PLAID

Yes, PLAID was the Wordle answer on June 11, 2025 (Wordle #1453).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pled//plad//plæd/

Noun

A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern.

Noun

A length of such material used as a piece of clothing, formerly worn in the Scottish Highlands and other parts of northern Britain and remaining as an item of ceremonial dress worn by members of Scottish pipe bands.

Adjective

Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scottish tartan; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another.

Verb

simple past and past participle of play

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: June 11, 2025 (#1453).

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

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How PLAID performs as a guess

PLAID 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 80.7% of games, misses completely in 19.3%, and leaves about 166 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #641 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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.

P___D P in the 1st position and D in the 5th position P__I_ P in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _L__D L in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

TORSE TONER TRINE CRUSE HELLO TARSE
Words starting with P Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.90 Entropy (bits)
166 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 78% of evaluated openers
1.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PLAID 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#641 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PLAID ranks #641 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
990
4 guesses
1,136
5 guesses
151
6 guesses
6
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
2 vowels
Common:
AIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
33%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
P L A I D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PLAID in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

112 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

456
251
208
135
116
104
78
62
56
53
45
45
41
35
33
32
31
29
29
27
26
22
22
21
19
19
17
15
15
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PLAID:

19% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
11% chance
Suggested:
TONER
9% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.3% →
TORSE 6.41 bits
10.6% →
TONER 5.42 bits
8.8% →
TRINE 5.46 bits
5.7% →
CRUSE 5.14 bits
4.9% →
HELLO 4.85 bits
4.4% →
TARSE 4.69 bits
3.3% →
DRONE 5.00 bits
2.6% →
STURE 5.18 bits
2.4% →
CRUSE 4.59 bits
2.2% →
STILE 4.11 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3L1A1I1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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