TROUT
Yes, TROUT was the Wordle answer on May 4, 2025 (Wordle #1415).
As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /tɹaʊt//tɹʌʊt/
- Noun
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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
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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
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To fish for trout.
- Verb
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To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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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: May 4, 2025 (#1415).
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See what the public sample says →How TROUT performs as a guess
TROUT 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 76.7% of games, misses completely in 23.3%, and leaves about 206 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
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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.
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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
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:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for TROUT; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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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:
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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, TROUT is a kind of fish.
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.
In a sentence
It was trout for lunch.
He caught a large trout.
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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).