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WAIST

Yes, WAIST was the Wordle answer on December 6, 2025 (Wordle #1631).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /weɪst/

Noun

The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach.

Noun

A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist.

Alternative forms: waste, wast

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: December 6, 2025 (#1631).

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

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How WAIST performs as a guess

WAIST 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 82.4% of games, misses completely in 17.6%, and leaves about 144 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,320 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.

W___T W in the 1st position and T in the 5th position W__S_ W in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _A__T A in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

LOURE LEARN LINER MORNE PLORE TUTOR
Words starting with W Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.01 Entropy (bits)
144 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.94 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WAIST 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#2,320 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WAIST ranks #2,320 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
976
4 guesses
1,115
5 guesses
187
6 guesses
15
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
39%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C L I N T
W A I S T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WAIST in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

105 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

416
242
151
140
107
105
98
65
53
47
47
46
45
44
44
44
37
35
32
32
30
25
25
24
22
21
20
16
16
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WAIST:

18% chance
Suggested:
LOURE
10% chance
Suggested:
LEARN
6% chance
Suggested:
LINER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.6% →
LOURE 5.84 bits
10.3% →
LEARN 5.38 bits
6.4% →
LINER 5.30 bits
5.9% →
MORNE 4.78 bits
4.5% →
PLORE 5.01 bits
4.5% →
TUTOR 5.23 bits
4.2% →
CRONE 4.87 bits
2.8% →
CHARE 4.21 bits
2.2% →
COURE 4.70 bits
2.0% →
CRUET 4.71 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4A1I1S1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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