WRONG
Yes, WRONG was the Wordle answer on June 12, 2023 (Wordle #723).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒŋ//ɹæŋ//ˈɹɔŋ/
- Adjective
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Incorrect or untrue.
“Some of your answers were correct, and some were wrong.”
- Adjective
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Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
“You're wrong: he's not Superman at all.”
- Adverb
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In a way that isn't right; incorrectly, wrongly.
“I spelled several names wrong in my address book.”
- Noun
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Something that is immoral or not good.
“Injustice is a heinous wrong.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English wrong, from Old English wrang (“wrong, twisted, uneven”), from Old Norse rangr, vrangr (“crooked, wrong”), from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz (“crooked, twisted, turned awry”), from Proto-Indo-European *werḱ-, *wrengʰ- (“to twist, weave, tie together”), from *wer- (“to turn, bend”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it RAWNG.
Rhymes with ALONG THONG PRONG STONG
Related meanings
Synonyms damage incorrect faulty improper incorrectly wrongly
Opposites RIGHT outside proper appropriate
In a sentence
I was in the wrong.
One of you is wrong.
Use WRONG in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 89.4% of possible answers.
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: June 12, 2023 (#723).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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WRONG appeared in SILENT "W" (purple group).
How WRONG performs as a guess
WRONG 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 73.3% of games, misses completely in 26.7%, and leaves about 253 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.
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.
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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
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:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for WRONG; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
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:
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.
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.
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).