WAKEN
Yes, WAKEN was the Wordle answer on September 19, 2026 (Wordle #1918).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈweɪkən/
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To wake or rouse from sleep.
- Verb
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To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English waknen, from Old English wæcnan, from Proto-Germanic *waknaną.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it WAYKUHN.
Related meanings
Synonyms wake AWAKE awaken ROUSE
In a sentence
I didn't expect you to be waken up so early in the morning.
Use WAKEN in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.
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: September 19, 2026 (#1918).
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See what the public sample says →How WAKEN performs as a guess
WAKEN is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.6% of games, misses completely in 18.4%, and leaves about 189 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,852 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe WAKEN 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 WAKEN 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 WAKEN in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
WAKEN can come back 82 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 WAKEN; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing WAKEN
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to WAKEN.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing WAKEN:
Research on WAKEN
Game-tree analysis and word research for WAKEN, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with WAKEN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,501 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 WAKEN can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.78; proven optimal play reaches 3.74. 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- WAKEN sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with internal bodily sensation (3.3 of 5).
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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).