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PROSE

Yes, PROSE was the Wordle answer on January 17, 2025 (Wordle #1308).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpɹəʊz//ˈpɹoʊz/

Noun

Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.

“Though known mostly for her prose, she also produced a small body of excellent poems.”

Noun

Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.

Verb

To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.

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: January 17, 2025 (#1308).

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How PROSE performs as a guess

PROSE 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 87.3% of games, misses completely in 12.7%, and leaves about 105 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,500 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___E P in the 1st position and E in the 5th position P__S_ P in the 1st position and S 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 PROSE.

First-turn measures

All four describe PROSE 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.

5.39 Entropy (bits)
105 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.56 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PROSE 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
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#1,500 Rank among openers
Opening with PROSE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,500 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
90
3 guesses
946
4 guesses
1,123
5 guesses
175
6 guesses
18
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:
EORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
40%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P R O N G
A B A S E
P R O S E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PROSE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

PROSE can come back 125 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

302 answers
187 answers
150 answers
147 answers
135 answers
127 answers
89 answers
77 answers
70 answers
53 answers
48 answers
47 answers
39 answers
38 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
33 answers
33 answers
32 answers
30 answers
30 answers
28 answers
25 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3R1O1S1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

TUNIC LEANT TONAL AGILE SAINT CARRY

Strategy after playing PROSE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PROSE:

13% chance
Suggested:
TUNIC
8% chance
Suggested:
LEANT
6% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.7% →
TUNIC 5.63 bits
7.9% →
LEANT 5.38 bits
6.3% →
LEANT 4.47 bits
6.2% →
TONAL 4.97 bits
5.7% →
AGILE 4.59 bits
5.3% →
SAINT 5.18 bits
3.7% →
CARRY 4.78 bits
3.2% →
CAROM 4.41 bits
2.9% →
TRAIN 4.31 bits
2.2% →
BLOAT 3.90 bits

Research on PROSE

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

Optimal play

Opening with PROSE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #233 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.75 guesses at best and is rank #286 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61; proven optimal play reaches 3.60. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 PROHZ.

Rhymes with THOSE SHOWS KNOWS CHOSE GROWS

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PROSE is a kind of genre or style.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PROSE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 5 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 11, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 51 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.

In a sentence

This is a prose poem, right?
© tatoeba.org contributor Miktsoanit (CC BY 2.0 FR)
What exactly is prose poetry?
© tatoeba.org contributor shekitten (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).