WEDGE
Yes, WEDGE was the Wordle answer on July 15, 2022 (Wordle #391).
As an opener, it rules out about 83.4% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /wɛd͡ʒ/
- Noun
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One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
“Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.”
- Noun
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A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
“Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?”
- Verb
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To support or secure using a wedge.
“I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.”
- Verb
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To force into a narrow gap.
“He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
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Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: July 15, 2022 (#391).
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See what the public sample says →How WEDGE performs as a guess
WEDGE 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 63.3% of games, misses completely in 36.7%, and leaves about 393 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,845 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe WEDGE 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 WEDGE 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 WEDGE in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
WEDGE can come back 76 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 WEDGE; 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 WEDGE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to WEDGE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing WEDGE:
Research on WEDGE
Game-tree analysis and word research for WEDGE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with WEDGE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,245 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 WEDGE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, WEDGE is a kind of triangle or sandwich.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- WEDGE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.5 of 5).
In a sentence
You drove a wedge between us.
More painful than any wedge.
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).