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PLEAD

Yes, PLEAD was the Wordle answer on November 25, 2025 (Wordle #1620).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pliːd//plɛd/

Verb

To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case.

“The defendant has decided to plead not guilty.”

Verb

To beg, beseech, or implore, especially emotionally.

“He pleaded with me not to leave the house.”

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Middle English pleden, plaiden, from Old French plaider (“to plead, offer a plea”), from plait, from Medieval Latin placitum (“a decree, sentence, suit, plea, etc.", in Classical Latin, "an opinion, determination, prescription, order; literally, that which is pleasing, pleasure”), neuter of placitus, past participle of placeō (“to please”). Cognate with Spanish pleitear (“to litigate, take to court”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it PLEED.

Rhymes with SPEED BREED FREED GREED BLEED

In a sentence

I plead you to tell me the truth.
© tatoeba.org contributor wma (CC BY 2.0 FR)
He was unfit to plead.
© tatoeba.org contributor Dalyup (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use PLEAD in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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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: November 25, 2025 (#1620).

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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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PLEAD in Connections

1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How PLEAD performs as a guess

PLEAD 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 84.8% of games, misses completely in 15.2%, and leaves about 149 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,427 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___D P in the 1st position and D in the 5th position P__A_ P in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _L__D L in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PLEAD 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.

5.01 Entropy (bits)
149 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PLEAD 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#1,427 Rank among openers
Opening with PLEAD left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,427 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
82
3 guesses
925
4 guesses
1,182
5 guesses
155
6 guesses
8

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
28%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L A D E N
D E C A L
P L E A D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PLEAD in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

PLEAD can come back 116 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

362 answers
297 answers
244 answers
155 answers
92 answers
81 answers
70 answers
59 answers
59 answers
54 answers
53 answers
51 answers
51 answers
38 answers
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21 answers
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12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3L1E1A1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SNORT TORSE TRAIN TARSE SILLY BOREE

Strategy after playing PLEAD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PLEAD:

15% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
12% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.2% →
SNORT 5.96 bits
12.5% →
TORSE 5.53 bits
10.2% →
TRAIN 5.14 bits
6.5% →
TARSE 4.89 bits
3.9% →
SILLY 4.81 bits
3.4% →
BOREE 4.19 bits
2.9% →
NOIRE 4.83 bits
2.5% →
SETER 4.82 bits
2.5% →
STALL 4.20 bits
2.3% →
SYRUP 4.61 bits

Research on PLEAD

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

Optimal play

Opening with PLEAD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #931 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 PLEAD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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
PLEAD sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 44 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (4.2 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); 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).