Wordle #1,397 hints & answer for April 16, 2025
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Hints for Wordle #1397
What kind of word
Wiktionary lists it as an adjective, and also as a noun.
What it means
“Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially conforming to principles of rectitude.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
Fill the gap
“The _____ of The Boy Who Cried Wolf is that if you repeatedly lie, people won't believe you when you tell the truth.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentence selected from Wiktionary, with the answer removed.
How it ends
Ends in L.
How it starts
Begins with M.
Reveal the answer and explanation
The answer to Wordle #1,397 was
MORAL: Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially conforming to principles of rectitude.
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
Why it may be easier: five different letters, at least two vowels and none of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.
The word rating describes familiarity and letter features. The solver score below measures how a fixed strategy handles the puzzle; an unusual word can still be easy for that strategy.
How difficult was it for the solver?
Solver pressure: 49/100 (middle of the pack). This is a percentile among past puzzles under the same strategy: 0 is easiest and 100 is hardest for the solver.
This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →
Wordle #1,397, measured
This section compares MORAL's solver-difficulty percentile, first-guess results for ten familiar openers, and opt-in player reports. Each number identifies its dataset.
Solver difficulty, as a percentile
This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, MORAL measured harder for the solver than about 49% of all 1,952 recorded answers to date. Its rating is middle of the pack. CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave a large group.
Solver pressure ranks the answer within the pool; it does not measure player performance. The opener table compares first-guess results, and the contributed ratings report player results.
CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU benchmark
TARSE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 12 of the 2,384 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, ADIEU left 289 candidates, about 24 times as many. The vowel-heavy probes ADIEU and AUDIO revealed comparatively little here. Vowel coverage helps only when the answer's vowels are still in doubt.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| TARSE | TARSE | 12 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 59 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 62 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 64 |
| STARE | STARE | 65 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 68 |
| SALET | SALET | 69 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 78 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 79 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 289 |
“Answers still possible” counts the words in the site's 2,384-word working answer pool whose feedback would match that opener exactly. This is pattern arithmetic, not a simulation. A smaller number means the opener left fewer possible answers after the first guess. It does not describe later turns.
Contributed player ratings
Not enough contributed games to publish player figures for this puzzle. Per-puzzle numbers appear only after at least 10 opt-in games arrive. See how the Observatory collects and publishes player data →
See the solver's route to MORAL → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to MORAL.
The solver reaches the answer in 3 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for April 16, 2025?
- The Wordle answer for April 16, 2025 (puzzle #1397) was MORAL.
- What does MORAL mean?
- MORAL: Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially conforming to principles of rectitude.
- Why was Wordle #1397 tricky?
- MORAL is rated easy for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be easier: five different letters, at least two vowels and none of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.