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SLANG

Yes, SLANG was the Wordle answer on November 27, 2024 (Wordle #1257).

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈslæŋ/[ˈslæŋ]/ˈsleɪ̯ŋ/

Noun

Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register.

Noun

Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.

Verb

To sell (something, especially illegal drugs).

Verb

To vocally abuse, or shout at.

Alternative forms: slanket

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: November 27, 2024 (#1257).

See the full page for that puzzle: November 27, 2024 (#1257).

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

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How SLANG performs as a guess

SLANG 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 81.7% of games, misses completely in 18.3%, and leaves about 147 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #347 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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.

S___G S in the 1st position and G in the 5th position S__N_ S in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _L__G L in the 2nd position and G in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SLANG 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.

4.96 Entropy (bits)
147 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 81% of evaluated openers
0.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SLANG 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.66 Spread of game lengths
#347 Rank among openers
Opening with SLANG left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.66 means those games clustered within about 0.66 of a guess of the 3.58 average. It ranks #347 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
1,025
4 guesses
1,122
5 guesses
132
6 guesses
11
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
1 vowels
Common:
ALNS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
35%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
S L A N G

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SLANG in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SLANG can come back 99 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

434 answers
207 answers
150 answers
133 answers
119 answers
112 answers
99 answers
85 answers
82 answers
57 answers
56 answers
54 answers
46 answers
41 answers
36 answers
31 answers
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29 answers
29 answers
26 answers
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18 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1L1A1N1G2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

TRODE CARTE LIBEL DINER PORTE RUOTE

Strategy after playing SLANG

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SLANG:

18% chance
Suggested:
TRODE
9% chance
Suggested:
CARTE
6% chance
Suggested:
LIBEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.3% →
TRODE 6.06 bits
8.7% →
CARTE 5.41 bits
6.3% →
LIBEL 4.98 bits
5.6% →
DINER 5.07 bits
5.0% →
PORTE 5.22 bits
4.7% →
RUOTE 5.38 bits
4.2% →
CARTE 4.58 bits
3.6% →
TRUCE 5.23 bits
3.5% →
TRODE 5.15 bits
2.4% →
COURE 4.61 bits

Research on SLANG

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

Optimal play

Opening with SLANG, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,756 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 SLANG can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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 SLANG.

Rhymes with CHANG LIANG THANG CLANG STANG

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SLANG is a kind of language or speech.

Synonyms cant fool cod jargon vernacular LINGO

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SLANG 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (4.4 of 5).

In a sentence

Don't use slang if you can help it.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I'm not familiar with that slang.
© tatoeba.org contributor Eccles17 (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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).