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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

PLAIN

Yes, PLAIN was the Wordle answer on June 27, 2025 (Wordle #1469).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pleɪn/[pl̥eɪn]/plen/

Adjective

Simple, unaltered.

“He was dressed simply in plain black clothes.”

Adjective

Obvious.

Adverb

Simply.

“It was just plain stupid.”

Noun

An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse.

Alternative forms: plaine, plein

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 27, 2025 (#1469).

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

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How PLAIN performs as a guess

PLAIN 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 82.7% of games, misses completely in 17.3%, and leaves about 140 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #491 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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___N P in the 1st position and N in the 5th position P__I_ P in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _L__N L in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

TORSE CATER STIRE STURE ROUTE ROULE
Words starting with P Words ending with N

First-turn measures

5.07 Entropy (bits)
140 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 87% of evaluated openers
0.88 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PLAIN 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#491 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PLAIN ranks #491 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
1,030
4 guesses
1,065
5 guesses
173
6 guesses
12
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:
AILN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
34%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PLAIN in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

118 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

408
213
164
136
122
117
98
86
62
58
54
54
40
34
33
32
28
28
27
25
24
23
22
22
22
22
17
17
17
17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PLAIN:

17% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
9% chance
Suggested:
CATER
7% chance
Suggested:
STIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.3% →
TORSE 6.31 bits
9.0% →
CATER 5.43 bits
7.0% →
STIRE 5.35 bits
5.8% →
STURE 5.13 bits
5.2% →
ROUTE 5.29 bits
5.0% →
ROULE 4.87 bits
4.2% →
SATER 4.68 bits
3.6% →
GRISE 4.44 bits
2.6% →
STURE 5.10 bits
2.5% →
TRIDE 4.13 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3L1A1I1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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