VEGAN
Yes, VEGAN was the Wordle answer on February 11, 2026 (Wordle #1698).
As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈviːɡən//ˈveɪɡən/
- Adjective
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Not containing animal products (meat, eggs, milk, leather, etc) or inherently involving animal use.
“He eats a completely vegan diet.”
- Adjective
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Committed to avoiding any product or practice that inherently involves animal use.
“She is not vegan as she eats eggs and wears leather.”
- Noun
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A person who does not eat, drink or otherwise consume any animal products
- Noun
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A person committed to avoiding products and practices that inherently involve animal use, including all foods containing animal products, and to abstaining from direct and intentional harm to animals as far as possible; an adherent to veganism.
“Our vegan-friendly shaving brush is made with synthetic bristles instead of badger hair.”
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: February 11, 2026 (#1698).
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VEGAN 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 81.0% of games, misses completely in 19.0%, and leaves about 202 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,800 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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First-turn measures
All four describe VEGAN 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 VEGAN 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 VEGAN in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
VEGAN can come back 98 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 VEGAN; 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 VEGAN
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to VEGAN.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing VEGAN:
Research on VEGAN
Game-tree analysis and word research for VEGAN, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with VEGAN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #8,998 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 VEGAN can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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 VEHGUHN.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, VEGAN is a kind of vegetarian.
Synonyms edible
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- VEGAN sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 9 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
In a sentence
Are you really a vegan?
Is it hard to be vegan?
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).