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SORRY

Yes, SORRY was the Wordle answer on March 29, 2025 (Wordle #1379).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsɒɹi//ˈsɑɹi//ˈsoɹi/

Adjective

Regretful or apologetic for one's actions.

“I am sorry I stepped on your toes. It was an accident.”

Adjective

Grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.

“I feel sorry for you, about your exam results.”

Interjection

Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.

“Sorry! I didn't see that you were on the phone.”

Interjection

Said as a request to excuse one's unintentional behaviors.

“Oops! Sorry!”

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: March 29, 2025 (#1379).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 29, 2025 (#1379).

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

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How SORRY performs as a guess

SORRY 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 76.4% of games, misses completely in 23.6%, and leaves about 220 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

S___Y S in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position S__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

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.

4.43 Entropy (bits)
220 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 47% of evaluated openers
1.52 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#9,407 Rank among openers
Opening with SORRY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,407 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
819
4 guesses
1,197
5 guesses
269
6 guesses
24
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
45%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

R O A T E
D U C H Y
A G L O W
S O R R Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SORRY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SORRY can come back 84 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

561 answers
279 answers
188 answers
155 answers
153 answers
105 answers
99 answers
87 answers
47 answers
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11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1O1R1R1Y4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

LIANE NAICE LEANT ALINE CLINE THALE

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:

24% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
12% chance
Suggested:
NAICE
8% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.6% →
LIANE 6.22 bits
11.8% →
NAICE 5.19 bits
7.9% →
LEANT 5.41 bits
6.5% →
ALINE 5.38 bits
6.4% →
LIANE 4.52 bits
4.4% →
CLINE 4.67 bits
4.2% →
THALE 5.24 bits
3.7% →
TENOR 3.79 bits
2.0% →
THALE 4.80 bits
2.0% →
PALET 3.75 bits

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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it SAHREE.

Rhymes with AMARI IMARI CHARY

Related meanings

Synonyms bad blue dark sad grim gloomy

Opposites good valuable cheerful

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).

In a sentence

What are you sorry for?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Sorry, but who are you?
© tatoeba.org contributor DJ_Saidez (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).