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WREST

Yes, WREST was the Wordle answer on October 20, 2026 (Wordle #1949).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɹɛst/

Verb

To pull or twist violently.

Verb

To obtain by pulling or violent force.

“He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel.”

Noun

The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.

Noun

A key to tune a stringed instrument.

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

Etymology

From Middle English wresten, wrasten, wræsten, from Old English wrǣstan (“to twist forcibly, wrench”), from Proto-Germanic *wraistijaną, (compare Proto-Germanic *wrīhaną (“to turn, wind; to cover, envelop”), *wrīþaną (“to weave, twist”), Old Norse reista (“to bend, twist”)), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wreiḱ-, *wreyḱ- (“to bend, twist”), *wreyt- (“to bend”). See also writhe, wry.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it REHST.

Rhymes with GUEST CHEST QUEST CREST BLEST

In a sentence

Ask for the moon and I shall wrest it from the heavens.
© tatoeba.org contributor fekundulo (CC BY 2.0 FR)
One of the kids tried to wrest his scooter out of the officer's hands.
© tatoeba.org contributor Luciferous (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use WREST in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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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: October 20, 2026 (#1949).

See the full page for that puzzle: October 20, 2026 (#1949).

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How WREST performs as a guess

WREST 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 84.4% of games, misses completely in 15.6%, and leaves about 137 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,970 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___T W in the 1st position and T in the 5th position W__S_ W in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _R__T R in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position WR_ST W in the 1st position, R in the 2nd position, S in the 4th position, and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe WREST 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.

5.09 Entropy (bits)
137 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WREST 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#1,970 Rank among openers
Opening with WREST 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 3.62 average. It ranks #1,970 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
932
4 guesses
1,168
5 guesses
161
6 guesses
15

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ERST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
32%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
E N T E R
C R E P T
W R E S T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WREST in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

WREST can come back 118 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

372 answers
266 answers
170 answers
140 answers
127 answers
111 answers
77 answers
68 answers
68 answers
54 answers
54 answers
48 answers
44 answers
40 answers
36 answers
36 answers
34 answers
31 answers
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30 answers
29 answers
24 answers
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16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4R1E1S1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

COALY LIANE AINEE CAROL SNAIL TITAN

Strategy after playing WREST

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WREST:

16% chance
Suggested:
COALY
11% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
7% chance
Suggested:
AINEE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.6% →
COALY 5.73 bits
11.2% →
LIANE 5.39 bits
7.1% →
AINEE 4.28 bits
5.9% →
CAROL 5.31 bits
5.3% →
SNAIL 5.04 bits
4.7% →
TITAN 5.03 bits
3.2% →
DRAIN 4.22 bits
2.9% →
ANILE 4.48 bits
2.9% →
LATTE 4.74 bits
2.3% →
PLANE 4.38 bits

Research on WREST

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

Optimal play

Opening with WREST, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #3,104 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best and is rank #1,186 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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
WREST 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.

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).