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PRISM

Yes, PRISM was the Wordle answer on December 25, 2025 (Wordle #1650).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪz(ə)m/[ˈpʰɹ̠̊ɪzm̩]/ˈpɹɪzəm/

Noun

A polyhedron with parallel ends of the same polygonal shape and size, the other faces being parallelogram-shaped sides.

Noun

A retroreflector (“device which reflects light back to its source with minimal scattering”) which is usually attached to a surveying pole as a target for a total station which emits a light beam at the device and calculates how long it takes to be reflected back in order to measure distance.

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: December 25, 2025 (#1650).

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

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How PRISM performs as a guess

PRISM 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 78.6% of games, misses completely in 21.4%, and leaves about 187 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,721 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___M P in the 1st position and M in the 5th position P__S_ P in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _R__M R in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

Try next

OLATE TERRA LEANT TILDE COATE CLONE
Words starting with P Words ending with M

First-turn measures

4.68 Entropy (bits)
187 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 64% of evaluated openers
1.27 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PRISM 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
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#1,721 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PRISM ranks #1,721 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
972
4 guesses
1,138
5 guesses
167
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
1 vowels
Common:
IRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
31%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PRISM in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

504
266
175
152
123
102
90
72
66
65
44
40
40
37
37
32
31
31
24
24
17
17
17
17
17
16
15
15
14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PRISM:

21% chance
Suggested:
OLATE
11% chance
Suggested:
TERRA
7% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.4% →
OLATE 6.00 bits
11.3% →
TERRA 5.39 bits
7.4% →
LEANT 5.55 bits
6.4% →
TILDE 5.14 bits
5.2% →
COATE 5.01 bits
4.3% →
CLONE 4.89 bits
3.8% →
MONEY 5.03 bits
3.1% →
HAOLE 5.03 bits
2.8% →
CADET 4.57 bits
2.8% →
THANE 4.65 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3R1I1S1M3
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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