REPLY
Yes, REPLY was the Wordle answer on August 3, 2026 (Wordle #1871).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈplaɪ/
- Verb
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To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.
- Verb
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To act or gesture in response.
“Joanne replied to Pete's insult with a slap to his face.”
- Noun
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A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
- Noun
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Something given in reply.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English replyen, replien, borrowed from Old French replier (“to reply”), from the Latin replicō, replicāre (“to fold back”) (in Late or Medieval Latin "to reply, repeat"), from re + plicō (“to fold”); the noun derives from the verb by nominalisation. Doublet of replicate and replica.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it RIHPLY.
Rhymes with APPLY IMPLY THIGH DECRY RETRY
Related meanings
Synonyms answer response respond
In a sentence
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Use REPLY in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: August 3, 2026 (#1871).
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See what the public sample says →How REPLY performs as a guess
REPLY 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 86.4% of games, misses completely in 13.6%, and leaves about 146 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,206 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe REPLY 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How REPLY 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches REPLY in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
REPLY can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for REPLY; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
Strategy after playing REPLY
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to REPLY.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing REPLY:
Research on REPLY
Game-tree analysis and word research for REPLY, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with REPLY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,696 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,255 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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
- REPLY sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 32 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.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (4.5 of 5).
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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).