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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).

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 2,358 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 268 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,975 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___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

Try next

SLIER CARLE CRONE SHIRE TARTE RONTE
Words starting with A Words ending with T

First-turn measures

3.99 Entropy (bits)
268 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 opener: v5 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
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,975 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ABBOT 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 (3.45 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

74 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

553
411
284
145
128
98
78
62
61
61
55
53
46
38
26
21
16
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
10
10
9
7
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ABBOT:

23% 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 5.32 bits
6.1% →
SHIRE 5.43 bits
5.4% →
TARTE 4.93 bits
4.2% →
SLIER 5.31 bits
3.3% →
RONTE 4.52 bits
2.6% →
SLICE 4.87 bits
2.6% →
SCALE 4.30 bits
2.6% →
SLIER 4.75 bits

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.