ABENG
ABENG is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.
As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /əˈbɛŋ//æ-//æˈbɛŋ/
- Noun
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An animal (usually bull) horn used by the Maroon people of Jamaica as a musical instrument; and also (historical) formerly by slaveholders to summon slaves to canefields and by the Maroon army to communicate cryptic messages over great distances.
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
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
NoThe solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.
Past Wordle answer
Not used yetNo past answer date found.
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How ABENG performs as a guess
Wordle accepts ABENG 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 82.8% of games, misses completely in 17.2%, and leaves about 186 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,462 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe ABENG 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How ABENG 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Feedback distribution
ABENG can come back 79 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing ABENG:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for ABENG; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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