5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

ABORT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈbɔːt//əˈbɔɹt/

Noun

An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.

“We've had aborts on three of our last seven launches.”

Noun

The function used to abort a process.

Verb

To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.

Verb

To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.

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 ABORT performs as a guess

ABORT 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 85.5% of games, misses completely in 14.5%, and leaves about 128 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,656 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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__R_ A in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _B__T B in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SLICE SLANE SEINE CARLE COLEY SHITE
Words starting with A Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.09 Entropy (bits)
128 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 88% of evaluated openers
0.86 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ABORT 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#1,656 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ABORT ranks #1,656 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
990
4 guesses
1,089
5 guesses
194
6 guesses
12
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
29%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
A B O R T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ABORT in 2 guesses.

Feedback distribution

109 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

341
252
184
123
122
102
86
78
71
66
49
46
46
44
43
37
36
35
35
33
28
26
25
24
23
23
23
22
20
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ABORT:

14% chance
Suggested:
SLICE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
8% chance
Suggested:
SEINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.5% →
SLICE 6.04 bits
10.7% →
SLANE 5.48 bits
7.8% →
SEINE 5.17 bits
5.2% →
CARLE 4.53 bits
5.2% →
COLEY 4.92 bits
4.3% →
SHITE 5.12 bits
3.6% →
TASTE 4.72 bits
3.3% →
SOCLE 4.62 bits
3.0% →
ROWER 4.20 bits
2.8% →
SHIEL 4.96 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1B3O1R1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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