WISER
Yes, WISER was the Wordle answer on March 25, 2026 (Wordle #1740).
As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪzɚ//ˈwaɪzə/
- Adjective
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comparative form of wise: more wise
“It was stolen with nobody being any the wiser.”
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
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: March 25, 2026 (#1740).
The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.
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How WISER performs as a guess
WISER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,360 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 131 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
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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.
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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches WISER in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
WISER can come back 107 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing WISER:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for WISER; 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.
The science of WISER
What game-tree analysis and word research measure about WISER — each figure with what it means.
Optimal play
Opening with WISER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses — rank #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 only 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) — not the site's working answer pool.
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable — say it WYZUR.
Meaning network
In WordNet's sense inventory, WISER is a kind of way.
Synonyms FRESH SMART knowing SASSY forward informed
Opposites foolish backward
How people know it
- Frequency
- WISER sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English — a word most readers meet regularly.
In a sentence
He is wiser than them.
You're wiser than you know.
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).