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ABACK

Yes, ABACK was the Wordle answer on October 7, 2021 (Wordle #110).

As an opener, it rules out about 80.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈbæk//aˈbak//əˈbe̞k/

Adverb

By surprise; startled; dumbfounded. (see usage)

Adverb

Backward against the mast; said of the sails when pressed by the wind from the "wrong" (forward) side, or of a ship when its sails are set that way.

Noun

An inscribed stone square.

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: October 7, 2021 (#110).

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

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How ABACK performs as a guess

ABACK is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 60.0% of games, misses completely in 40.0%, and leaves about 454 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,240 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

A___K A in the 1st position and K in the 5th position A__C_ A in the 1st position and C in the 4th position

Try next

TOILE TALER STIRE COURE LOURE DROLE
Words starting with A Words ending with K

First-turn measures

3.51 Entropy (bits)
454 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
80.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 7% of evaluated openers
2.44 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ABACK 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#13,240 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ABACK ranks #13,240 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
28
3 guesses
661
4 guesses
1,306
5 guesses
338
6 guesses
20
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
60%
Green tile
26%
All gray
40%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
A H E N T
A B A C K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ABACK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

57 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

943
297
164
148
135
81
65
64
47
47
39
30
24
21
21
16
16
15
15
14
13
13
11
10
8
7
7
7
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ABACK:

40% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
TALER
7% chance
Suggested:
STIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

40.0% →
TOILE 5.98 bits
12.6% →
TALER 5.51 bits
7.0% →
STIRE 5.23 bits
6.3% →
COURE 5.49 bits
5.7% →
LOURE 5.30 bits
3.4% →
DROLE 4.90 bits
2.8% →
TUILE 4.52 bits
2.7% →
CARET 4.57 bits
2.0% →
SLIER 4.62 bits
2.0% →
BLORE 4.39 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1B3A1C3K5
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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