BATCH
Yes, BATCH was the Wordle answer on December 27, 2025 (Wordle #1652).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /bæt͡ʃ/
- Noun
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The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
“We made a batch of cookies to take to the party.”
- Noun
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A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
“We poured a bucket of water in at the top, and the ice-maker dispensed a batch of ice-cubes at the bottom.”
- Verb
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To aggregate things together into a batch.
“The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.”
- Verb
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To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.
“The purchase requests for the day were stored in a queue and batched for printing the next morning.”
Alternative forms: baiche
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English bach, bache, bahche, from Old English *bæċċ (“something baked”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bakku, from Proto-Germanic *bakkuz (“baking, baked goods”), cognate with Middle High German becke (“something baked, pastry, baking, bakery”). Related also to Old English bacan (“to bake”), Old English ġebæc (“something baked”), Dutch gebak, German Gebäck, Dutch baksel.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it BACH.
Rhymes with MATCH CATCH PATCH HATCH LATCH
Related meanings
Synonyms lot deal mass mountain plenty mess
In a sentence
What is the batch size?
This is a trial batch.
Use BATCH in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% 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: December 27, 2025 (#1652).
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See what the public sample says →How BATCH performs as a guess
BATCH 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 74.7% of games, misses completely in 25.3%, and leaves about 230 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,193 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe BATCH 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 BATCH 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 BATCH in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
BATCH can come back 92 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 BATCH; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
Strategy after playing BATCH
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to BATCH.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing BATCH:
Research on BATCH
Game-tree analysis and word research for BATCH, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with BATCH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,632 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 BATCH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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
- BATCH sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 8 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.4 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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).