SWING
Yes, SWING was the Wordle answer on December 14, 2025 (Wordle #1639).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈswɪŋ/
- Verb
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To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
“The plant swung in the breeze.”
- Verb
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To dance.
- Noun
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The act, or an instance, of swinging.
- Noun
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The manner in which something is swung.
“He worked tirelessly to improve his golf swing.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English swyngen, from Old English swingan, from Proto-West Germanic *swingan, from Proto-Germanic *swinganą (compare Low German swingen, German schwingen, Dutch zwingen, Swedish svinga), from Proto-Indo-European *swenk-, *sweng- (compare Scottish Gaelic seang (“thin”)). Related to swink.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it SWIHNG.
Rhymes with THING BRING STING CLING CHING
Related meanings
Synonyms cut drop SWEEP swinging sway jive
In a sentence
Paul was on the swing.
The party is in full swing.
Use SWING in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 87.8% 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: December 14, 2025 (#1639).
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See what the public sample says →SWING in Connections
9 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 #1108
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SWING appeared in DANCE STYLES (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #1005
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SWING appeared in THINGS THAT MOVE BACK AND FORTH (green group).
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· Puzzle #538
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SWING appeared in DANCE STYLES (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #518
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SWING appeared in THINGS THAT SWING (purple group).
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· Puzzle #503
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SWING appeared in PLACES TO LIE/SIT THAT MOVE (blue group).
How SWING performs as a guess
SWING 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 69.6% of games, misses completely in 30.4%, and leaves about 292 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,783 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe SWING 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 SWING 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 SWING in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
SWING can come back 82 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 SWING; 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 SWING
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SWING.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing SWING:
Research on SWING
Game-tree analysis and word research for SWING, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with SWING, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,029 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.87 guesses at best and is rank #3,472 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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
- SWING sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 22 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 87 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.5 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; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).