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TOWER

Yes, TOWER was the Wordle answer on August 27, 2025 (Wordle #1530).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtaʊ.ə(ɹ)/[ˈtɑːə][ˈtɑː]

Noun

A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.

Noun

An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.

Verb

To be very tall; to reach a high height.

“The office block towered into the sky.”

Verb

To be high or lofty; to soar.

Alternative forms: towre

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: August 27, 2025 (#1530).

See the full page for that puzzle: August 27, 2025 (#1530).

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

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How TOWER performs as a guess

TOWER 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 84.8% of games, misses completely in 15.2%, and leaves about 132 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,742 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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.

T___R T in the 1st position and R in the 5th position T__E_ T in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__R O in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position TO_ER T in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TOWER 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.

5.07 Entropy (bits)
132 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 87% of evaluated openers
0.87 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TOWER 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#3,742 Rank among openers
Opening with TOWER solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,742 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
910
4 guesses
1,151
5 guesses
205
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
2 vowels
Common:
EORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
31%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
T O W E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TOWER in 2 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TOWER can come back 107 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

361 answers
256 answers
143 answers
138 answers
133 answers
107 answers
92 answers
87 answers
79 answers
65 answers
55 answers
52 answers
49 answers
43 answers
33 answers
31 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1O1W4E1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SLAIN SLANE SAUCY SAINT CEASE LEASE

Strategy after playing TOWER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TOWER:

15% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
6% chance
Suggested:
SAUCY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.2% →
SLAIN 5.94 bits
10.8% →
SLANE 5.42 bits
6.0% →
SAUCY 4.94 bits
5.8% →
SAINT 5.36 bits
5.6% →
CEASE 4.57 bits
4.5% →
LEASE 4.96 bits
3.9% →
SALON 5.01 bits
3.7% →
SADLY 4.39 bits
3.3% →
RAINY 3.34 bits
2.7% →
ALIEN 4.42 bits

Research on TOWER

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

Optimal play

Opening with TOWER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,426 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 TOWER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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 TOWUR.

Rhymes with POWER FLOUR BOWER SCOUR COWER

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TOWER is a kind of construction or form.

Synonyms column hulk pillar tug loom

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TOWER sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 32 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.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 90 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.2 of 5).

In a sentence

I was up in the tower.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
We go up the tower.
© tatoeba.org contributor carlosalberto (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).