TOKEN
Yes, TOKEN was the Wordle answer on June 17, 2026 (Wordle #1824).
As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈtəʊkən//ˈtoʊkən/
- Noun
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Something serving as an expression of something else.
“According to the Bible, the rainbow is a token of God's covenant with Noah.”
- Noun
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A keepsake.
“Please accept this bustier as a token of our time together.”
- Adjective
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Done as an indication or a pledge.
- Adjective
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Perfunctory or merely symbolic; done or existing for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
“a token gesture”
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
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: June 17, 2026 (#1824).
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See what the public sample says →How TOKEN performs as a guess
TOKEN 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 85.6% of games, misses completely in 14.4%, and leaves about 139 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,192 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe TOKEN 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 TOKEN 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 TOKEN in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
TOKEN can come back 93 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 TOKEN; 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.
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Strategy after playing TOKEN
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to TOKEN.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing TOKEN:
Research on TOKEN
Game-tree analysis and word research for TOKEN, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with TOKEN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,855 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.82 guesses at best and is rank #1,859 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.69; proven optimal play reaches 3.67. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.
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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, TOKEN is a kind of symbol or sign.
Synonyms item nominal RELIC souvenir minimum minimal
Opposites maximum maximal
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- TOKEN sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 7 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.2 of 5).
In a sentence
This is a token of our love.
This is a token of our care.
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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).