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This list has 10 Wordle guesses; 3 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 3 answers. Possible-answer status helps narrow a puzzle, but does not predict which word Wordle will choose.

Past Wordle answers: LABEL (August 12, 2022); LIBEL (October 29, 2022); REBEL (September 10, 2024).

Top-ranked splitter AALII
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AALII does not fit this page's clues. LABEL keeps every clue shown here and leaves an average remainder of 1.0 (1 in its worst branch). Check any additional yellow-position clues in the full Solver.

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LABEL

A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.

“We laughed at her because the label was still on her new sweater.”

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Past Wordle answer: August 12, 2022.

LIBEL

A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation.

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Past Wordle answer: October 29, 2022.

REBEL

A person who resists an established authority, often violently.

“A group of rebels defied the general's orders and split off from the main army.”

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Past Wordle answer: September 10, 2024.

BABEL

Alternative form of Babel.

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Not found among the past answers in this archive.

DEBEL

To conquer.

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GIBEL

Prussian carp (Carassius gibelio).

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JEBEL

A hill, a mountain (especially in the Middle East or North Africa).

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NEBEL

A Hebrew stringed instrument, possibly the same as the nabla.

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RUBEL

Alternative form of ruble (“the monetary unit of Belarus, equal to 100 kopeks”).

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UMBEL

A flat-topped or rounded flower-cluster (= inflorescence) in which the individual flower stalks arise from the same point, the youngest flowers being at the centre.

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