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TROUT

Yes, TROUT was the Wordle answer on May 4, 2025 (Wordle #1415).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɹaʊt//tɹʌʊt/

Noun

Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.

“Many anglers consider trout to be the archetypical quarry.”

Noun

An objectionable elderly woman.

“Look, you silly old trout, you can't keep bringing home cats! You can't afford the ones you have!”

Verb

To fish for trout.

Verb

To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Middle English troute, troughte, trught, trouȝt, trouhte, partly from Old English truht (“trout”), and partly from Old French truite; both from Late Latin tructa, perhaps from Ancient Greek τρώκτης (trṓktēs, “nibbler”), from τρώγω (trṓgō, “to gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, to turn”). The Internet verb sense originated on BBSes of the 1980s, probably from Monty Python's The Fish-Slapping Dance (1972), though that sketch involved a halibut.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it TROWT.

Rhymes with ABOUT DOUBT SHOUT SCOUT STOUT

In a sentence

It was trout for lunch.
© tatoeba.org contributor Ergulis (CC BY 2.0 FR)
He caught a large trout.
© tatoeba.org contributor Spamster (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use TROUT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% of possible answers.

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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: May 4, 2025 (#1415).

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TROUT in Connections

1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How TROUT performs as a guess

TROUT 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 76.7% of games, misses completely in 23.3%, and leaves about 207 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,360 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___T T in the 1st position and T in the 5th position T__U_ T in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _R__T R in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TROUT 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.

4.57 Entropy (bits)
207 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TROUT 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#8,360 Rank among openers
Opening with TROUT left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,360 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
845
4 guesses
1,153
5 guesses
271
6 guesses
25

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ORTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
34%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S H U N T
G R O U T
T R O U T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TROUT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TROUT can come back 96 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

556 answers
243 answers
165 answers
164 answers
118 answers
111 answers
103 answers
98 answers
91 answers
52 answers
47 answers
41 answers
37 answers
32 answers
29 answers
26 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1O1U1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

SLANE SAYEE LEANY SLICE CADIE HASTE

Strategy after playing TROUT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TROUT:

23% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
10% chance
Suggested:
SAYEE
7% chance
Suggested:
LEANY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.3% →
SLANE 6.24 bits
10.2% →
SAYEE 4.91 bits
6.9% →
LEANY 4.95 bits
6.9% →
SLICE 5.01 bits
4.9% →
CADIE 4.71 bits
4.7% →
HASTE 5.19 bits
4.3% →
SLANE 4.76 bits
4.1% →
SORER 4.12 bits
3.8% →
SLANE 5.29 bits
2.2% →
SERRY 4.30 bits

Research on TROUT

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

Optimal play

Opening with TROUT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,809 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.92 guesses at best and is rank #4,643 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, 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
TROUT sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 6 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 89 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).