5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

ABEAT

ABEAT is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adverb

Beating.

Adjective

Beating.

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How ABEAT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ABEAT as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.7% of games, misses completely in 18.3%, and leaves about 197 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,160 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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__A_ A in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _B__T B in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY RIONE CLARY CARLE SOUTH TRITE
Words starting with A Words ending with T

First-turn measures

All four describe ABEAT 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.

4.46 Entropy (bits)
197 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 49% of evaluated openers
1.49 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ABEAT 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#11,160 Rank among openers
Opening with ABEAT left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.79 average. It ranks #11,160 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
751
4 guesses
1,220
5 guesses
306
6 guesses
24
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
3 vowels
Common:
AET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
27%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

ABEAT can come back 81 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

431 answers
383 answers
221 answers
145 answers
125 answers
97 answers
85 answers
77 answers
65 answers
64 answers
52 answers
49 answers
45 answers
39 answers
36 answers
34 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ABEAT:

18% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
16% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
9% chance
Suggested:
CLARY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.3% →
SOILY 5.70 bits
16.2% →
RIONE 5.27 bits
9.4% →
CLARY 5.03 bits
6.1% →
CARLE 4.76 bits
5.3% →
SOUTH 5.03 bits
4.1% →
TRITE 4.63 bits
3.6% →
NOISE 4.61 bits
3.3% →
SCREE 4.47 bits
2.8% →
NASTY 3.92 bits
2.7% →
SOILY 4.65 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1B3E1A1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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