Matt Damon kept Ben Affleck out of VIP Wordle group with Bradley Cooper, Jason Bateman

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon take their intellectual pursuits seriously.

The brainy best friends, famed for co-writing the Oscar-winning screenplay “Good Will Hunting,” are both ultra-competitive when it comes to Wordle.

And while Affleck, 50, declared that he and Damon, 52, play the popular word game, the “Justice League” star is feeling injustice because he’s been excluded from Damon’s separate VIP “Nerdle League,” whose members include Will Arnett, Bradley Cooper and Jason Bateman.

“I’m trying to get into it, and I’m being velvet-roped by the bouncer here,” Affleck told Kelly Clarkson as he sat alongside Damon during a joint appearance on the “American Idol” winner’s daytime talk show.

Damon then explained how he set up a super-intense group in which players compete in Wordle, Quordle and Octordle, before combining their scores.

“So there’s Octordle, which is the eight words, and then Quordle, which is the four words, and then Wordle, which is the one. So we play all three and you add up your score,” the “Bourne Identity” actor enthused.

“It’s very, very competitive,” the star continued as he name-dropped the A-list members of the group.

Damon insisted that he had invited Affleck to join the collective before revealing its unusual name.

“You’re welcome to join,” Damon told Affleck. “We call it the ‘Nerdle League.’ I was like, ‘You can join the ‘Nerdle League’ but you might want to get your scores up.’ “

The “Daredevil” star conceded that Damon had indeed invited him into the group, but admitted that he wasn’t competitive enough to keep up.

“The truth is they told me what their scores were — I was like, ‘I can get in.’ Then I did it a couple of times — I was like, ‘I might need to train,’” Affleck admitted.

Damon and Affleck appeared on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” to promote their new film, “Air,” a biopic about Michael Jordan’s partnership with Nike.

The long-time friends, who grew up together in Boston, recently revealed on “The Bill Simons Podcast” that their love of Wordle isn’t the only thing they share.

The besties revealed that they had just one bank account between the two of them to help pay for tryouts and jumpstart their acting careers in the 1980s.

“It was unusual, but we needed the money for auditions,” Damon admitted in the interview.

“We were going to help each other and be there for each other,” Affleck added. “It was like, ‘You’re not going to be alone. I’m not going to be alone. Let’s go out there and do this together.’”