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VERSE

Yes, VERSE was the Wordle answer on March 28, 2025 (Wordle #1378).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /vɜːs//ˈvɝs//ˈvɜːs/

Noun

A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.

“Restoration literature is well known for its carefully constructed verse.”

Noun

Poetic form in general.

“The restrictions of verse have steadily been relaxed over time.”

Verb

To tell in verse, or poetry.

Verb

to educate about, to teach about.

“He versed us in the finer points of category theory.”

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: March 28, 2025 (#1378).

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

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How VERSE performs as a guess

VERSE 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 76.3% of games, misses completely in 23.7%, and leaves about 213 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,508 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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.

V___E V in the 1st position and E in the 5th position V__S_ V in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe VERSE 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.

4.54 Entropy (bits)
213 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How VERSE 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#10,508 Rank among openers
Opening with VERSE left 1 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 3.77 average. It ranks #10,508 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
764
4 guesses
1,198
5 guesses
304
6 guesses
25
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
37%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P R I S M
C U R S E
V E R S E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches VERSE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

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

562 answers
243 answers
210 answers
135 answers
132 answers
127 answers
82 answers
71 answers
66 answers
64 answers
55 answers
45 answers
41 answers
37 answers
27 answers
25 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4E1R1S1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

TALON TRAIN SAINT ANILE ALIEN OATER

Strategy after playing VERSE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VERSE:

24% chance
Suggested:
TALON
10% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
9% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.7% →
TALON 5.72 bits
10.2% →
TRAIN 5.26 bits
8.8% →
SAINT 5.10 bits
5.7% →
ANILE 4.66 bits
5.6% →
ALIEN 5.25 bits
5.3% →
OATER 3.87 bits
3.5% →
DEALT 4.54 bits
3.0% →
COALY 4.54 bits
2.8% →
SHALT 4.52 bits
2.7% →
PRATE 3.56 bits

Research on VERSE

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

Optimal play

Opening with VERSE, 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.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with VERSE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77; proven optimal play reaches 3.76. 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it VURS.

Rhymes with WORSE NURSE CURSE PURSE TERSE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, VERSE is a kind of genre or poem.

Synonyms poetry RHYME

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
VERSE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 15 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 55 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (3.4 of 5).

In a sentence

Give me chapter and verse.
© tatoeba.org contributor Omeritzics1 (CC BY 2.0 FR)
From which chapter is this verse?
© tatoeba.org contributor eeyinn (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).