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SWORD

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.1% 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).

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 2,358 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 211 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 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

Try next

LIANE PALET LEANT TONAL LEAST DAILY
Words starting with S Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.54 Entropy (bits)
211 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.1% 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 opener: v5 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
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#5,410 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SWORD 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 (3.45 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

98 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

544
291
175
166
116
97
97
62
58
50
50
42
39
37
37
36
35
33
25
25
22
15
13
13
13
13
12
11
11
10

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 5.38 bits
7.4% →
LEANT 5.38 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
2.6% →
BLATE 4.65 bits
2.5% →
PEATY 4.63 bits
2.1% →
DIANE 4.80 bits

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.