ALIBI
Yes, ALIBI was the Wordle answer on June 21, 2026 (Wordle #1828).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈæl.ə.baɪ/
- Noun
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The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed.
“to set up an alibi”
- Noun
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An excuse, especially one used to avoid responsibility or blame.
- Verb
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To provide an alibi for.
- Verb
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To provide an excuse for.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From the 18th century, from Latin alibī (“elsewhere, at another place”, adverb). Probably after French alibi, which has this use since the late 14th century.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it ALUHBY.
Related meanings
Synonyms excuse
In a sentence
Do you have an alibi?
I don't have an alibi.
Use ALIBI in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 88.2% of possible answers.
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
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: June 21, 2026 (#1828).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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ALIBI appeared in COMPONENTS OF A MYSTERY (green group).
How ALIBI performs as a guess
ALIBI is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 74.4% of games, misses completely in 25.6%, and leaves about 280 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,790 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe ALIBI 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 ALIBI 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
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches ALIBI in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
ALIBI can come back 62 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for ALIBI; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing ALIBI
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to ALIBI.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing ALIBI:
Research on ALIBI
Game-tree analysis and word research for ALIBI, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with ALIBI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #11,941 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.96 guesses at best and is rank #5,404 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.83, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- ALIBI sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (4.2 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).