BIBLE
BIBLE is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪbəl/
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Alternative letter-case form of Bible (“a specific version, edition, translation, or copy of the Christian religious text”).
- Noun
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Alternative letter-case form of Bible (“the analogous holy book of another religion”).
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English bible, from Medieval Latin biblia (“book”) (misinterpreted as a feminine from earlier Latin neuter plural biblia (“books”)), from Ancient Greek βιβλία (biblía, “books”), plural of βιβλίον (biblíon, “small book”), originally a diminutive of βίβλος (bíblos, “book”), from βύβλος (búblos, “papyrus”) (from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported this writing material).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it BYBUHL.
Rhymes with LIBEL
Related meanings
Synonyms book word scripture
In a sentence
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Use BIBLE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 90.3% 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
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
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See what the public sample says →How BIBLE performs as a guess
BIBLE 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 77.5% of games, misses completely in 22.5%, and leaves about 231 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,217 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe BIBLE 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 BIBLE 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 BIBLE in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
BIBLE can come back 79 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 BIBLE; 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.
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Strategy after playing BIBLE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to BIBLE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing BIBLE:
Research on BIBLE
Game-tree analysis and word research for BIBLE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with BIBLE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,508 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 #5,526 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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
- BIBLE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 35 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.0 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).