SLICE
Yes, SLICE was the Wordle answer on May 2, 2024 (Wordle #1048).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /slaɪs/
- Noun
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That which is thin and broad.
- Noun
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A thin, broad piece cut off.
“a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread”
- Verb
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To cut into slices.
“Slice the cheese thinly.”
- Verb
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To cut with an edge using a drawing motion.
“The knife left sliced his arm.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English sclise, sklise, from Old French esclice, esclis (“a piece split off”), deverbal of esclicer, esclicier (“to splinter, split up”), from Frankish *slitjan (“to split up”), from Proto-Germanic *slitjaną, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to split, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip”), Old High German slīȥan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split up”), modern French éclisse.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it SLYS.
Rhymes with PRICE TWICE SPICE TRICE GRICE
Related meanings
Synonyms cut PIECE fade SLASH slit slicing
In a sentence
He slice it for you.
Do you want a slice?
Use SLICE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 95.8% 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: May 2, 2024 (#1048).
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See what the public sample says →SLICE in Connections
6 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1221
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SLICE appeared in TENNIS SHOTS (green group).
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· Puzzle #786
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SLICE appeared in MAKE INTO SMALLER PIECES WHILE COOKING (green group).
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· Puzzle #603
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SLICE appeared in BIT OF CITRUS GARNISH (blue group).
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· Puzzle #479
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SLICE appeared in USE A KITCHEN KNIFE (green group).
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· Puzzle #442
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SLICE appeared in BAD GOLF SHOTS (blue group).
How SLICE performs as a guess
SLICE 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 87.3% of games, misses completely in 12.7%, and leaves about 99 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #308 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe SLICE 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 SLICE 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 SLICE in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
SLICE can come back 126 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 SLICE; 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 SLICE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SLICE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing SLICE:
Research on SLICE
Game-tree analysis and word research for SLICE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with SLICE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #141 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.74 guesses at best and is rank #186 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.57, at or below the proven-optimal 3.60, 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
- SLICE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 10 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 sight (3.4 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).