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SWORD

Yes, SWORD was the Wordle answer on July 19, 2025 (Wordle #1491).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /soɹd//sɔːd//soːd/

Noun

A long bladed weapon with a grip and typically a pommel and crossguard (together forming a hilt), which is designed to cut, stab, slash and/or hack.

“He took out his sword and stabbed the man in the stomach.”

Noun

A suit in certain playing card decks, particularly those used in Spain and Italy, or those used for divination.

Verb

To stab or cut with a sword

Alternative forms: swerd, sweard, swoord, swoorde

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: July 19, 2025 (#1491).

See the full page for that puzzle: July 19, 2025 (#1491).

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

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How SWORD performs as a guess

SWORD 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 76.9% of games, misses completely in 23.1%, and leaves about 213 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,410 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___D S in the 1st position and D in the 5th position S__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _W__D W in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SWORD 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.

4.53 Entropy (bits)
213 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 54% of evaluated openers
1.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SWORD 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#5,410 Rank among openers
Opening with SWORD solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,410 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
872
4 guesses
1,193
5 guesses
211
6 guesses
14
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
31%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I N D
A R I S H
S W O R D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SWORD in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SWORD can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

549 answers
293 answers
176 answers
167 answers
117 answers
97 answers
97 answers
63 answers
58 answers
51 answers
50 answers
42 answers
39 answers
37 answers
37 answers
36 answers
35 answers
34 answers
25 answers
25 answers
22 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1W4O1R1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

LIANE PALET LEANT TONAL LEAST DAILY

Strategy after playing SWORD

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SWORD.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SWORD:

23% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
12% chance
Suggested:
PALET
7% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.1% →
LIANE 6.18 bits
12.3% →
PALET 5.37 bits
7.4% →
LEANT 5.37 bits
7.0% →
TONAL 5.08 bits
4.9% →
LEAST 5.15 bits
4.1% →
DAILY 5.08 bits
4.1% →
TARRE 4.38 bits
2.7% →
BLATE 4.64 bits
2.4% →
PEATY 4.62 bits
2.1% →
URATE 4.46 bits

Research on SWORD

Game-tree analysis and word research for SWORD, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with SWORD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,271 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 SWORD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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

One syllable Say it SAWRD.

Rhymes with BOARD AWARD BORED CHORD HOARD

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SWORD is a kind of arm.

Synonyms BRAND STEEL BLADE

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SWORD sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 23 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 B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 95 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.7 of 5).

In a sentence

I don't have a sword.
© tatoeba.org contributor Dorenda (CC BY 2.0 FR)
This is a good sword.
© tatoeba.org contributor Barend (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; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).