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ABBOT

Yes, ABBOT was the Wordle answer on December 28, 2025 (Wordle #1653).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈæbət//ˈabət//ˈɛbət/

Noun

The superior or head of an abbey or monastery.

“The newly appointed abbot decided to take a tour of the abbey with the cardinal's emissary.”

Noun

The pastor or administrator of an order, including minor and major orders starting with the minor order of porter.

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: December 28, 2025 (#1653).

See the full page for that puzzle: December 28, 2025 (#1653).

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

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How ABBOT performs as a guess

ABBOT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 76.5% of games, misses completely in 23.5%, and leaves about 270 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,975 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___T A in the 1st position and T in the 5th position A__O_ A in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _B__T B in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in ABBOT.

First-turn measures

All four describe ABBOT used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

3.99 Entropy (bits)
270 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 22% of evaluated openers
1.96 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ABBOT 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,975 Rank among openers
Opening with ABBOT left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,975 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
741
4 guesses
1,245
5 guesses
296
6 guesses
19
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
22%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B L O A T
A B B O T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ABBOT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

ABBOT can come back 74 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

558 answers
412 answers
286 answers
148 answers
128 answers
98 answers
78 answers
63 answers
62 answers
61 answers
55 answers
53 answers
46 answers
38 answers
26 answers
22 answers
17 answers
14 answers
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11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1B3B3O1T1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SLIER CARLE CRONE SHIRE TARTE RONTE

Strategy after playing ABBOT

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to ABBOT.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ABBOT:

24% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
17% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
12% chance
Suggested:
CRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.5% →
SLIER 6.04 bits
17.4% →
CARLE 5.54 bits
12.0% →
CRONE 5.31 bits
6.2% →
SHIRE 5.42 bits
5.4% →
TARTE 4.93 bits
4.1% →
SLIER 5.31 bits
3.3% →
RONTE 4.52 bits
2.7% →
SLIER 4.88 bits
2.6% →
PLIER 4.90 bits
2.6% →
SCALE 4.30 bits

Research on ABBOT

Game-tree analysis and word research for ABBOT, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with ABBOT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,198 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.97 guesses at best and is rank #5,608 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it ABUHT.

Rhymes with HABIT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ABBOT is a kind of man.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ABBOT sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

In a sentence

Look, this man is an abbot.
© tatoeba.org contributor Miktsoanit (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The abbot arrived on time.
© tatoeba.org contributor rul (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).