Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

ABLET

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A small fresh-water fish (Alburnus alburnus); the bleak.

Alternative forms: Ablen

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From French ablet, ablette, a diminutive from Late Latin abula, for albula, diminutive of albus (“white”). Compare abele.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use ABLET in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How ABLET performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ABLET 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 87.8% of games, misses completely in 12.2%, and leaves about 112 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,679 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe ABLET 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.

5.23 Entropy (bits)
112 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ABLET 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#3,679 Rank among openers
Opening with ABLET solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,679 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
79
3 guesses
904
4 guesses
1,149
5 guesses
210
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AELT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
32%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

ABLET can come back 115 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

291 answers
224 answers
194 answers
128 answers
115 answers
114 answers
98 answers
86 answers
70 answers
69 answers
64 answers
56 answers
46 answers
42 answers
41 answers
37 answers
35 answers
33 answers
30 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
24 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1B3L1E1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing ABLET

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ABLET:

12% chance
Suggested:
IRONY
9% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE
8% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.2% →
IRONY 5.55 bits
9.4% →
NOIRE 5.25 bits
8.1% →
CAIRN 5.06 bits
5.4% →
SENOR 4.26 bits
4.8% →
SOULY 4.69 bits
4.8% →
SOUTH 4.95 bits
4.1% →
SCARE 4.67 bits
3.6% →
SNAIL 4.15 bits
2.9% →
ROUSE 4.67 bits
2.9% →
SHIRE 4.55 bits

Research on ABLET

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

Optimal play

Opening with ABLET, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #985 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 ABLET can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65; proven optimal play reaches 3.63. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).