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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

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).

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 2,358 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 211 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,508 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

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

Try next

TALON TRAIN STAIN ANILE ALIEN AIDER
Words starting with V Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.54 Entropy (bits)
211 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 opener: v5 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
100.0% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#10,508 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, VERSE 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 (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
38%
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

96 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

558
242
207
135
130
127
82
71
66
64
55
44
41
37
27
25
20
20
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18
16
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VERSE:

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

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.7% →
TALON 5.72 bits
10.3% →
TRAIN 5.25 bits
8.8% →
STAIN 5.06 bits
5.7% →
ANILE 4.66 bits
5.5% →
ALIEN 5.24 bits
5.4% →
AIDER 3.78 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

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.