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WISER

Yes, WISER was the Wordle answer on March 25, 2026 (Wordle #1740).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪzɚ//ˈwaɪzə/

Adjective

comparative form of wise: more wise

“It was stolen with nobody being any the wiser.”

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it WYZUR.

Rhymes with VISOR RISER MISER SIZER PIZER

Related meanings by dictionary sense

adjective — base form wise

having or prompted by wisdom or discernment

a wise leader
a wise and perceptive comment

Opposites for this sense: foolish.

adjective — base form wise

marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters

a wise decision

adjective — base form wise

evidencing the possession of inside information

Synonyms for this sense: knowing.

adjective — base form wise

improperly forward or bold

Don't get wise with me!

Synonyms for this sense: fresh, smart, sassy.

noun — base form wise

a way of doing or being

in no wise
in this wise

Open English WordNet, 2025 edition, CC BY 4.0. Source dictionary. Senses are kept separate; no puzzle appearance is assigned to a meaning without evidence.

In a sentence

He is wiser than them.
© tatoeba.org contributor RudeGuyGames (CC BY 2.0 FR)
You're wiser than you know.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use WISER in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Wordle status

Answer chance: very unlikely. Roughly 0.21% within a year (about 1 in 476), under the model through 2026-11-05. This is an estimate, not a publisher forecast. How this is calculated.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Earlier benchmark pool

Yes

Membership in the preserved uniform benchmark; it is not a future eligibility rule.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: March 25, 2026 (#1740).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 25, 2026 (#1740).

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

Reported player results

Voluntary self-reported sample, not representative of all players. Solver scores do not measure human difficulty. Small or complementary cells stay private.

Wordle #1740 · March 25, 2026

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How WISER performs as a guess

WISER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,392 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 85.9% of games, misses completely in 14.1%, and leaves about 133 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,884 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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.

W___R W in the 1st position and R in the 5th position W__E_ W in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__R I in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position WI_ER W in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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First-turn measures

All four describe WISER 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.

4.99 Entropy (bits)
133 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WISER 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,884 Rank among openers
Opening with WISER left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,884 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
75
3 guesses
842
4 guesses
1,197
5 guesses
223
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
28%
All gray
14%

When WISER is useful later

WISER tied for the smallest expected survivor count in 1 of 54 sampled positions where it was legal. This designed sample is not a measure of how often real players should use it.

After ROATE: 3 candidates, normal mode

ROATE: 10101 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).

AWNER: 10011 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).

ZEBRA: 01012 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).

Remaining answers: CREMA, ERICA, PRESA.

With a budget of 3 more guesses, WISER is an information probe, outside this survivor list. It leaves 1.00 candidates on average under the model. Every feedback identifies a single candidate; another turn may be needed to submit it.

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Sample and method

Every saved board is reachable within a six-turn game. Remaining turns equal six minus the saved history length. The sampling policy is independent of the expected-survivor metric. Two states at each of three depths per opener were selected by a fixed hash from an independent candidate-only sampling policy. Every accepted guess was evaluated. Model answer-model-2026-11-05-9183a914c959, data through 2026-11-05. The score measures expected survivors, not proved solve length or human difficulty.

How this is calculated.

How the solver finds WISER

The strategy receives only earlier guesses and their feedback. It does not know the answer before choosing a move. Guessing the answer itself on turn one is a lucky one-turn result, not a recommended general strategy.

Normal mode

Our solver: bounded weighted policy. Current-pool replay over 14,855 accepted words. Model through 2026-11-05.

  1. The fixed opener tests its five letters.

    14,855 before → 219 after. This feedback leaves 219 candidates.

    All 219 surviving candidates

    BEERS, BIERS, BOERS, BREDS, BREES, BREIS, BRENS, BRERS, BREWS, BREYS, BRIES, CREDS, CREES, CREMS, CREPS, CREWS, CRIES, CRUES, DEERS, DOERS, DOSER, DREES, DREGS, DREKS, DREYS, DRIES, DYERS, EGERS, EMIRS, EREVS, ERGOS, ERHUS, ERICS, ERNES, ERSES, ERUVS, ESKER, EWERS, EYERS, FEERS, FIERS, FREES, FRIES, FROES, GOERS, GREES, GRENS, GREPS, GREWS, GREYS, GRUES, HEIRS, HOERS, HOSER, HUERS, ICERS, JEERS, KEIRS, KIERS, LEERS, LEHRS, LEIRS, LIERS, LOSER, LUSER, MEERS, MISER, MOERS, MUSER, NOSER, OMERS, ONERS, ORFES, ORLES, OSIER, OVERS, OWERS, OXERS, OYERS, PEERS, PIERS, POSER, PREES, PREMS, PREPS, PREYS, PRIES, PUERS, REBUS, RECKS, REDDS, REDES, REDOS, REEDS, REEFS, REEKS, REELS, REEMS, REENS, REFIS, REGES, REGOS, REIFS, REIKS, REINS, REKES, RELOS, RENDS, RENGS, RENKS, RENOS, REPOS, REPPS, RESES, RESEW, RESID, RESIN, RESOD, RESOL, RESOW, RESUS, REUPS, REXES, REZES, RHIES, RIBES, RICES, RIDES, RIELS, RIEMS, RILES, RIMES, RINES, RIPES, RISEN, RISER, RISES, RIVES, ROBES, RODES, ROERS, ROHES, ROKES, ROLES, RONES, ROPES, ROSED, ROSES, ROUES, ROVES, ROZES, RUBES, RUDES, RUERS, RULES, RUMES, RUNES, RUSES, RYKES, SEDER, SEERS, SEFER, SEHRI, SEIRS, SENOR, SEVER, SEVIR, SEWER, SEXER, SEXOR, SHEER, SHERD, SHERO, SHIER, SHOER, SHYER, SIDER, SIEUR, SIKER, SILER, SIVER, SIXER, SIZER, SKEER, SKERM, SKERS, SKIER, SKYER, SLEER, SLIER, SLYER, SMERK, SNEER, SOBER, SOGER, SOLER, SOWER, SPEER, SPEIR, SPERM, SPIER, SPUER, SUBER, SUERS, SUPER, SWEER, SWEIR, SWERF, SYKER, SYVER, URGES, USERS, USHER, VEERS, VIERS, WEIRS, WISER, WRENS, WRIES

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 414.45. Information: 5.74 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  2. Test SEWER against the 219 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    219 before → 1 after. This feedback leaves 1 candidate.

    All 1 surviving candidates

    WISER

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 6.476. Information: 2.61 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  3. Submit the only remaining candidate.

    1 before → 1 after. The answer is submitted and solved.

    All 1 surviving candidates

    WISER

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 1.0. Information: 0.0 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

Solved in 3 guesses. Uniquely identified on turn 2.

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Hard Mode

Our solver: bounded weighted policy. Current-pool replay over 14,855 accepted words. Model through 2026-11-05.

  1. The fixed opener tests its five letters.

    14,855 before → 219 after. This feedback leaves 219 candidates.

    All 219 surviving candidates

    BEERS, BIERS, BOERS, BREDS, BREES, BREIS, BRENS, BRERS, BREWS, BREYS, BRIES, CREDS, CREES, CREMS, CREPS, CREWS, CRIES, CRUES, DEERS, DOERS, DOSER, DREES, DREGS, DREKS, DREYS, DRIES, DYERS, EGERS, EMIRS, EREVS, ERGOS, ERHUS, ERICS, ERNES, ERSES, ERUVS, ESKER, EWERS, EYERS, FEERS, FIERS, FREES, FRIES, FROES, GOERS, GREES, GRENS, GREPS, GREWS, GREYS, GRUES, HEIRS, HOERS, HOSER, HUERS, ICERS, JEERS, KEIRS, KIERS, LEERS, LEHRS, LEIRS, LIERS, LOSER, LUSER, MEERS, MISER, MOERS, MUSER, NOSER, OMERS, ONERS, ORFES, ORLES, OSIER, OVERS, OWERS, OXERS, OYERS, PEERS, PIERS, POSER, PREES, PREMS, PREPS, PREYS, PRIES, PUERS, REBUS, RECKS, REDDS, REDES, REDOS, REEDS, REEFS, REEKS, REELS, REEMS, REENS, REFIS, REGES, REGOS, REIFS, REIKS, REINS, REKES, RELOS, RENDS, RENGS, RENKS, RENOS, REPOS, REPPS, RESES, RESEW, RESID, RESIN, RESOD, RESOL, RESOW, RESUS, REUPS, REXES, REZES, RHIES, RIBES, RICES, RIDES, RIELS, RIEMS, RILES, RIMES, RINES, RIPES, RISEN, RISER, RISES, RIVES, ROBES, RODES, ROERS, ROHES, ROKES, ROLES, RONES, ROPES, ROSED, ROSES, ROUES, ROVES, ROZES, RUBES, RUDES, RUERS, RULES, RUMES, RUNES, RUSES, RYKES, SEDER, SEERS, SEFER, SEHRI, SEIRS, SENOR, SEVER, SEVIR, SEWER, SEXER, SEXOR, SHEER, SHERD, SHERO, SHIER, SHOER, SHYER, SIDER, SIEUR, SIKER, SILER, SIVER, SIXER, SIZER, SKEER, SKERM, SKERS, SKIER, SKYER, SLEER, SLIER, SLYER, SMERK, SNEER, SOBER, SOGER, SOLER, SOWER, SPEER, SPEIR, SPERM, SPIER, SPUER, SUBER, SUERS, SUPER, SWEER, SWEIR, SWERF, SYKER, SYVER, URGES, USERS, USHER, VEERS, VIERS, WEIRS, WISER, WRENS, WRIES

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 414.45. Information: 5.74 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  2. Test SEWER against the 219 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    219 before → 1 after. This feedback leaves 1 candidate.

    All 1 surviving candidates

    WISER

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 6.476. Information: 2.61 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  3. Submit the only remaining candidate.

    1 before → 1 after. The answer is submitted and solved.

    All 1 surviving candidates

    WISER

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 1.0. Information: 0.0 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

Solved in 3 guesses. Uniquely identified on turn 2.

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Historical proven-optimal benchmark: July 2023

Alex Selby’s strategy minimises the mean over its complete 3,158-answer snapshot. A route for one answer is not proof of the shortest possible route for that answer, and is separate from the current weighted model.

Normal mode

Selby’s proven-optimal strategy. July 2023 snapshot: 3,158 equally likely answers; minimum mean guesses.

  1. The fixed opener tests its five letters.

    3,158 before → 20 after. This feedback leaves 20 candidates.

    All 20 surviving candidates

    LOSER, MISER, POSER, REBUS, RESIN, RESOD, RISEN, RISER, SEDER, SEVER, SEWER, SHEER, SKIER, SNEER, SOBER, SOWER, SPERM, SUPER, USHER, WISER

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 100.074. Information: 5.888 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  2. Test SEWIN against the 20 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    20 before → 1 after. This feedback leaves 1 candidate.

    All 1 surviving candidates

    WISER

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 2.2. Information: 3.384 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  3. Submit the only remaining candidate.

    1 before → 1 after. The answer is submitted and solved.

    All 1 surviving candidates

    WISER

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 1.0. Information: 0.0 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

Solved in 3 guesses. Uniquely identified on turn 2.

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Hard Mode

Selby’s proven-optimal strategy. July 2023 snapshot: 3,158 equally likely answers; minimum mean guesses.

  1. The fixed opener tests its five letters.

    3,158 before → 20 after. This feedback leaves 20 candidates.

    All 20 surviving candidates

    LOSER, MISER, POSER, REBUS, RESIN, RESOD, RISEN, RISER, SEDER, SEVER, SEWER, SHEER, SKIER, SNEER, SOBER, SOWER, SPERM, SUPER, USHER, WISER

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 100.074. Information: 5.888 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  2. Test RESOW against the 20 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    20 before → 1 after. This feedback leaves 1 candidate.

    All 1 surviving candidates

    WISER

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 2.8. Information: 3.246 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  3. Submit the only remaining candidate.

    1 before → 1 after. The answer is submitted and solved.

    All 1 surviving candidates

    WISER

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 1.0. Information: 0.0 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

Solved in 3 guesses. Uniquely identified on turn 2.

Continue this board in the Solver

Source: Alex Selby’s Wordle analysis, MIT. Licence and attribution.

How the fixed opener panel performs on this answer

OpenerFirst feedbackSurvivorsNormalHard Mode
TARSE00111 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)21933
CRANE01001 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)71344
SLATE10001 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)73755
ADIEU00120 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)26844
STARE10011 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)22744
AUDIO00010 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)138755
RAISE10111 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)3944
ROATE10001 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)50844
SALET10020 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)38966
Normal mode
1 guess: 0 · 2 guesses: 0 · 3 guesses: 1 · 4 guesses: 5 · 5 guesses: 2 · 6 guesses: 1 · Failed in six: 0
Hard Mode
1 guess: 0 · 2 guesses: 0 · 3 guesses: 1 · 4 guesses: 5 · 5 guesses: 2 · 6 guesses: 1 · Failed in six: 0

The nine openers use the same pool and continuation policy. Across both modes: 3–6 guesses among successes; 0 of 18 configurations failed. This is performance on this answer, not an overall opener ranking.

81 openers set up a two-turn opportunity; examples include WORSE, WASTE, WALES, SWEAR, WAVES, SCREW, WAGES, WIVES, RISES, WRIST. After their feedback, this answer is among the most likely survivors with at least half the model probability. This is an opportunity, not a guarantee. An opener that immediately solves is excluded.

A lesson from this route

This route identifies the answer on turn 2. Identifying a unique candidate and submitting it are separate actions.

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How this is calculated

The current policy checks all remaining candidates and up to 128 fixed probes. At six or fewer candidates it uses bounded lookahead, preferring modelled six-turn success, then speed among successes. Larger states use expected survivors as a heuristic. These are recommendations, not proofs of optimal play. Hard Mode retains green positions and revealed letter counts; it allows grey letters and a yellow in the same position. Candidate-only play is stricter.

Methods and limitations

Feedback distribution

WISER can come back 107 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

337 answers
240 answers
169 answers
154 answers
145 answers
138 answers
106 answers
81 answers
77 answers
76 answers
65 answers
63 answers
61 answers
50 answers
34 answers
33 answers
28 answers
27 answers
24 answers
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23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4I1S1E1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

COALY OLATE COURT SLANT CRATE ANTIC

Strategy after playing WISER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WISER:

14% chance
Suggested:
COALY
10% chance
Suggested:
OLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
COURT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.1% →
COALY 5.70 bits
10.0% →
OLATE 5.31 bits
7.1% →
COURT 5.11 bits
6.4% →
SLANT 5.23 bits
6.1% →
CRATE 4.80 bits
5.8% →
ANTIC 5.21 bits
4.4% →
SHALT 4.94 bits
3.4% →
OLATE 3.31 bits
3.2% →
LEANT 3.84 bits
3.2% →
ALONE 4.24 bits

Research on WISER

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

Optimal play

Opening with WISER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,453 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 WISER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
WISER sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words in the source corpus. Corpus frequency does not measure every reader’s familiarity.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).