SORRY
Yes, SORRY was the Wordle answer on March 29, 2025 (Wordle #1379).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈsɒɹi//ˈsɑɹi//ˈsoɹi/
- Adjective
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Regretful or apologetic for one's actions.
“I am sorry I stepped on your toes. It was an accident.”
- Adjective
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Grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
“I feel sorry for you, about your exam results.”
- Interjection
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Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.
“Sorry! I didn't see that you were on the phone.”
- Interjection
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Said as a request to excuse one's unintentional behaviors.
“Oops! Sorry!”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English sory, from Old English sāriġ (“feeling or expressing grief, sorry, grieved, sorrowful, sad, mournful, bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *sairag, from Proto-Germanic *sairagaz (“sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂yro (“hard, rough, painful”). Cognate with Scots sairie (“sad, grieved”), Saterland Frisian seerich (“sore, inflamed”), West Frisian searich (“sad, sorry”), Low German serig (“sick, scabby”), German dialectal sehrig (“sore, sad, painful”), Swedish sårig.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it SAHREE.
Related meanings
Synonyms bad blue dark sad grim gloomy
Opposites good valuable cheerful
In a sentence
What are you sorry for?
Sorry, but who are you?
Use SORRY in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 90.8% 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: March 29, 2025 (#1379).
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See what the public sample says →SORRY 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 #1084
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SORRY appeared in "IN YOUR DREAMS" (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #908
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SORRY appeared in CLASSIC BOARD GAMES (blue group).
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· Puzzle #602
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SORRY appeared in DEJECTED (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #278
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SORRY appeared in “MY MISTAKE!” (green group).
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· Puzzle #76
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SORRY appeared in BOARD GAMES (yellow group).
How SORRY performs as a guess
SORRY 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 76.4% of games, misses completely in 23.6%, and leaves about 221 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,407 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 guesses in games solved within six turns.
Try your feedback pattern
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Useful pattern pages
If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.
First-turn measures
All four describe SORRY 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 SORRY 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 SORRY in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
SORRY can come back 85 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 SORRY; 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 SORRY
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SORRY.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing SORRY:
Research on SORRY
Game-tree analysis and word research for SORRY, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with SORRY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,708 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.97 guesses at best and is rank #5,743 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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
- SORRY sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 151 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 A1); among the first words English learners study.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with internal bodily sensation (3.3 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).