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PRIDE

Yes, PRIDE was the Wordle answer on July 19, 2021 (Wordle #30).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pɹaɪd/[ˈpɹ̥ʷaɪ̯d]/pɾʌɪd/

Noun

The quality or state of being proud.

“He swelled with pride as he held the trophy. His family watched with pride from the bleachers.”

Noun

Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment that reflects such an attitude (of haughtiness); arrogance.

Verb

To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it.

“I pride myself on being a good judge of character.”

Alternative forms: pryde

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: July 19, 2021 (#30).

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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 PRIDE performs as a guess

PRIDE 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 83.5% of games, misses completely in 16.5%, and leaves about 133 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #122 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.56 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__D_ P in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PRIDE 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.

5.16 Entropy (bits)
133 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.79 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PRIDE 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.

3.56 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#122 Rank among openers
Opening with PRIDE 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 3.56 average. It ranks #122 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
1,067
4 guesses
1,066
5 guesses
137
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:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
39%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P R I S M
A C R I D
P R I D E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PRIDE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

PRIDE can come back 117 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

392 answers
195 answers
154 answers
152 answers
150 answers
131 answers
91 answers
72 answers
52 answers
52 answers
50 answers
39 answers
35 answers
35 answers
35 answers
33 answers
32 answers
28 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3R1I1D2E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SLANT SALET LEAST SAULT COAST SATIN

Strategy after playing PRIDE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PRIDE:

17% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
8% chance
Suggested:
SALET
6% chance
Suggested:
LEAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.5% →
SLANT 5.99 bits
8.2% →
SALET 5.26 bits
6.5% →
LEAST 4.40 bits
6.4% →
SAULT 5.53 bits
6.3% →
COAST 5.33 bits
5.5% →
SATIN 5.06 bits
3.8% →
SLANT 5.21 bits
3.0% →
COAST 4.79 bits
2.2% →
COAST 4.21 bits
2.2% →
SLANT 4.65 bits

Research on PRIDE

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

Optimal play

Opening with PRIDE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #514 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 PRIDE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.56, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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 PRYD.

Rhymes with TRIED GUIDE ASIDE SLIDE CRIED

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PRIDE is a kind of feeling or satisfaction.

Synonyms congratulate PLUME

Opposites humility

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PRIDE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 31 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 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 55 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with internal bodily sensation (3.4 of 5).

In a sentence

I said that with pride.
© tatoeba.org contributor Miktsoanit (CC BY 2.0 FR)
He is full of pride.
© tatoeba.org contributor anzart (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).