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WOMEN

Yes, WOMEN was the Wordle answer on April 25, 2026 (Wordle #1771).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈwɪmɪn//ˈwɵmɪn//ˈwɪmən/

Noun

plural of woman

“Three women went for a walk.”

Noun

Misspelling of woman.

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

Etymology

From Middle English wimmen, from Old English wīfmenn (“women”), from wīf (“female”) + menn (“men, persons, human beings”), equivalent to wife + men. Spelling (with o) influenced by the singular; see woman for more.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

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

Related meanings

Opposites man

In a sentence

Are all of you women?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I like women like that.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use WOMEN in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

Open Solver with WOMEN Open Word Finder

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: April 25, 2026 (#1771).

See the full page for that puzzle: April 25, 2026 (#1771).

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

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How WOMEN performs as a guess

WOMEN 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 81.2% of games, misses completely in 18.8%, and leaves about 206 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,297 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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___N W in the 1st position and N in the 5th position W__E_ W in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__N O in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position WO_EN W in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and N in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in WOMEN.

First-turn measures

All four describe WOMEN 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.

4.52 Entropy (bits)
206 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WOMEN 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#6,297 Rank among openers
Opening with WOMEN solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,297 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
851
4 guesses
1,215
5 guesses
221
6 guesses
9

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
31%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
V I N Y L
W O K E N
W O M E N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WOMEN in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

WOMEN can come back 96 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

449 answers
405 answers
170 answers
164 answers
163 answers
109 answers
83 answers
82 answers
63 answers
55 answers
34 answers
31 answers
27 answers
27 answers
25 answers
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18 answers
12 answers
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11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4O1M3E1N1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SLART SAINT STAIR SALTY SEINE SPARE

Strategy after playing WOMEN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WOMEN:

19% chance
Suggested:
SLART
17% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.8% →
SLART 6.00 bits
17.0% →
SLART 5.84 bits
7.1% →
SAINT 5.16 bits
6.9% →
STAIR 4.57 bits
6.8% →
SLART 5.30 bits
4.6% →
SALTY 4.61 bits
3.5% →
SLART 5.04 bits
3.4% →
SEINE 4.62 bits
2.6% →
SPARE 4.18 bits
2.3% →
RAILE 4.73 bits

Research on WOMEN

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

Optimal play

Opening with WOMEN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #5,941 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,878 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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
WOMEN sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 372 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 90 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.

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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).