SLIDE
SLIDE is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.
As an opener, it rules out about 95.4% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈslaɪ̯d/[ˈslaɪ̯d]
- Verb
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To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
“He slid the boat across the grass.”
- Verb
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To move on a low-friction surface.
“The car slid on the ice.”
- Noun
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An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
“The long, red slide was great fun for the kids.”
- Noun
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A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
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
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Not used yetNo past answer date found.
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See what the public sample says →How SLIDE performs as a guess
SLIDE 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 86.4% of games, misses completely in 13.6%, and leaves about 108 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #951 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe SLIDE 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 SLIDE 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 SLIDE in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
SLIDE can come back 113 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 SLIDE; 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.
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Strategy after playing SLIDE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SLIDE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing SLIDE:
Research on SLIDE
Game-tree analysis and word research for SLIDE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with SLIDE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #774 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 SLIDE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, SLIDE is a kind of sheet or fall.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- SLIDE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 20 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.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 71 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.4 of 5).
In a sentence
I was on the slide.
He was on the slide.
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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).