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WRONG

Yes, WRONG was the Wordle answer on June 12, 2023 (Wordle #723).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒŋ//ɹæŋ//ˈɹɔŋ/

Adjective

Incorrect or untrue.

“Some of your answers were correct, and some were wrong.”

Adjective

Asserting something incorrect or untrue.

“You're wrong: he's not Superman at all.”

Adverb

In a way that isn't right; incorrectly, wrongly.

“I spelled several names wrong in my address book.”

Noun

Something that is immoral or not good.

“Injustice is a heinous wrong.”

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

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: June 12, 2023 (#723).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 12, 2023 (#723).

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

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How WRONG performs as a guess

WRONG 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 73.3% of games, misses completely in 26.7%, and leaves about 251 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,165 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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 4th position _R__G R in the 2nd position and G in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe WRONG 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.

4.36 Entropy (bits)
251 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 43% of evaluated openers
1.58 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WRONG 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#4,165 Rank among openers
Opening with WRONG solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,165 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
895
4 guesses
1,214
5 guesses
184
6 guesses
6
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
28%
All gray
27%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I N D
P R O N G
W R O N G

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WRONG in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

WRONG can come back 93 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

633 answers
296 answers
155 answers
149 answers
123 answers
99 answers
96 answers
85 answers
71 answers
60 answers
41 answers
36 answers
31 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
18 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4R1O1N1G2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SLATE SALET SAICE CADIE COATE LAIDE

Strategy after playing WRONG

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WRONG:

27% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
SALET
7% chance
Suggested:
SAICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.7% →
SLATE 6.49 bits
12.5% →
SALET 5.42 bits
6.5% →
SAICE 5.29 bits
6.3% →
SALET 5.00 bits
5.2% →
CADIE 5.14 bits
4.2% →
SLATE 4.83 bits
4.0% →
COATE 4.56 bits
3.6% →
LAIDE 5.28 bits
3.0% →
SAUTE 4.67 bits
2.5% →
CANOE 4.42 bits

Research on WRONG

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

Optimal play

Opening with WRONG, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,867 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 #2,783 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it RAWNG.

Rhymes with ALONG THONG PRONG STONG

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, WRONG is a kind of injustice or injury.

Synonyms damage incorrect faulty improper incorrectly wrongly

Opposites RIGHT outside proper appropriate

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
WRONG sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 245 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 39 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.

In a sentence

I was in the wrong.
© tatoeba.org contributor ddnktr (CC BY 2.0 FR)
One of you is wrong.
© tatoeba.org contributor sundown (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).