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ABBEY

Yes, ABBEY was the Wordle answer on January 13, 2022 (Wordle #208).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈæb.i/

Noun

The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.

Noun

A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.

“From 1199 to 1203 William Punchard was the abbot of the abbey of Rievaulx, which was part of the Cistercian order of monks.”

Alternative forms: abby

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: January 13, 2022 (#208).

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

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How ABBEY performs as a guess

ABBEY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.8% of games, misses completely in 19.2%, and leaves about 245 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,143 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.91 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.

A___Y A in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position A__E_ A in the 1st position and E in the 4th position

Try next

COURT CRISE SLART SENOR SOILY TRONE
Words starting with A Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.93 Entropy (bits)
245 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.6% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ABBEY 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.

3.91 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.75 Volatility
#14,143 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ABBEY ranks #14,143 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
606
4 guesses
1,257
5 guesses
407
6 guesses
38

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
35%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L A D E N
A B B E Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ABBEY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

66 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

453
355
328
212
203
166
87
61
59
46
43
36
33
31
22
22
15
15
15
13
12
11
10
8
8
7
7
6
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ABBEY:

19% chance
Suggested:
COURT
15% chance
Suggested:
CRISE
14% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.2% →
COURT 5.96 bits
15.0% →
CRISE 5.28 bits
13.9% →
SLART 5.25 bits
9.0% →
SENOR 4.28 bits
8.6% →
SLART 5.19 bits
7.0% →
SOILY 4.12 bits
3.7% →
SLART 4.06 bits
2.6% →
TRONE 4.01 bits
2.5% →
BURNT 4.74 bits
1.9% →
LATER 3.20 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1B3B3E1Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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