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PLANE

Yes, PLANE was the Wordle answer on October 5, 2025 (Wordle #1569).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pleɪn/

Adjective

Of a surface: flat or level.

Noun

A level or flat surface.

Noun

A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane); a bounded portion thereof.

Verb

To smooth (wood) with a plane.

Alternative forms: 'plane

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: October 5, 2025 (#1569).

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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 PLANE performs as a guess

PLANE 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 87.6% of games, misses completely in 12.4%, and leaves about 98 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #274 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 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.

P___E P in the 1st position and E in the 5th position P__N_ P in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _L__E L in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PLANE 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.

5.47 Entropy (bits)
98 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 98% of evaluated openers
0.48 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PLANE 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.

3.57 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#274 Rank among openers
Opening with PLANE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.57 average. It ranks #274 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
100
3 guesses
980
4 guesses
1,108
5 guesses
149
6 guesses
14
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:
AELN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
41%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
P L A C E
P L A N E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PLANE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

PLANE can come back 133 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

295 answers
198 answers
152 answers
122 answers
103 answers
81 answers
79 answers
75 answers
70 answers
69 answers
63 answers
61 answers
52 answers
48 answers
47 answers
42 answers
37 answers
34 answers
31 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3L1A1N1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SHORT DETER CARAT TORSE SILLY TONIC

Strategy after playing PLANE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PLANE:

12% chance
Suggested:
SHORT
8% chance
Suggested:
DETER
6% chance
Suggested:
CARAT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.4% →
SHORT 6.03 bits
8.3% →
DETER 5.39 bits
6.4% →
CARAT 5.12 bits
5.1% →
TORSE 4.65 bits
4.3% →
SILLY 4.74 bits
3.4% →
TONIC 4.98 bits
3.3% →
SHART 4.85 bits
3.2% →
TENOR 4.29 bits
2.9% →
TAMER 4.35 bits
2.9% →
SOILY 4.03 bits

Research on PLANE

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

Optimal play

Opening with PLANE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #105 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 PLANE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.57, at or below the proven-optimal 3.60, 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

One syllable Say it PLAYN.

Rhymes with TRAIN BRAIN CHAIN SPAIN PLAIN

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PLANE is a kind of aircraft or form.

Synonyms LEVEL flat SHEET airplane SHAVE aeroplane

Opposites uneven

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PLANE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 52 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 A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 84 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.0 of 5).

In a sentence

He was on that plane.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Do you have a plane?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).