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ABLED

ABLED is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.bl̩d/

Adjective

Having a range of physical powers as specified.

Noun

A person who has no disability.

Verb

simple past and past participle of able

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

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 ABLED performs as a guess

ABLED 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 83.4% of games, misses completely in 16.6%, and leaves about 155 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,632 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___D A in the 1st position and D in the 5th position A__E_ A in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _B__D B in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ABLED 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.

4.87 Entropy (bits)
155 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 76% of evaluated openers
1.08 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ABLED 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,632 Rank among openers
Opening with ABLED solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,632 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
870
4 guesses
1,199
5 guesses
203
6 guesses
10
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
27%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ABLED in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

ABLED can come back 103 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

393 answers
260 answers
245 answers
133 answers
126 answers
117 answers
100 answers
61 answers
55 answers
55 answers
53 answers
53 answers
40 answers
38 answers
38 answers
33 answers
32 answers
30 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1B3L1E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

HOIST TORSE CARAT SENOR STARE SOULY

Strategy after playing ABLED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ABLED:

17% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
11% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
10% chance
Suggested:
CARAT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.6% →
HOIST 6.02 bits
11.0% →
TORSE 5.40 bits
10.3% →
CARAT 5.12 bits
5.6% →
SENOR 4.43 bits
5.3% →
STARE 4.89 bits
4.9% →
SOULY 4.59 bits
4.2% →
COAST 4.39 bits
2.6% →
SUETE 4.35 bits
2.3% →
BURNT 4.77 bits
2.3% →
REATE 4.26 bits

Research on ABLED

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

Optimal play

Opening with ABLED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,320 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with ABLED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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 AYBUHLD.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ABLED sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with internal bodily sensation (3.1 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).