5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier for first-turn info

BLAME

Yes, BLAME was the Wordle answer on March 13, 2023 (Wordle #632).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

Open Solver with BLAME Open Word Finder

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bleɪm/

Noun

Censure.

“Blame came from all directions.”

Noun

Culpability for something negative or undesirable.

“The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.”

Verb

To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame; to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).

“The student driver was blamed for the accident.”

Verb

To assert the cause of some bad event.

“We blamed the accident on the student driver.”

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: March 13, 2023 (#632).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 13, 2023 (#632).

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

Wordle Observatory · optional

Played this Wordle?

Add your result to the public totals · about 20 seconds

Add your result and a quick difficulty rating to help explain how this puzzle played.

See the public data

The Observatory retains the selected puzzle, result, rating, optional Hard Mode answer and a random one-puzzle receipt. It stores no answer word, grid, guesses, account, email, IP-derived ID or reusable player identifier.

How verification and withdrawal work

The answer word and timezone are used transiently to verify this page, then discarded. The receipt prevents duplicate submissions and lets this browser withdraw later; anyone with that token can withdraw, so keep browser-data exports private. Read the full privacy details.

How BLAME performs as a guess

BLAME is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.5% of games, misses completely in 16.5%, and leaves about 146 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,856 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.
See strategy patterns

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

B___E B in the 1st position and E in the 5th position B__M_ B in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _L__E L in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in BLAME.

First-turn measures

All four describe BLAME 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.

5.01 Entropy (bits)
146 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.93 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BLAME 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#2,856 Rank among openers
Opening with BLAME left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,856 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
82
3 guesses
893
4 guesses
1,184
5 guesses
178
6 guesses
12
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
39%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
B L A M E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BLAME in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

BLAME can come back 116 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

391 answers
265 answers
180 answers
174 answers
111 answers
100 answers
80 answers
78 answers
68 answers
63 answers
54 answers
46 answers
38 answers
38 answers
36 answers
34 answers
32 answers
26 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3L1A1M3E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SNORT DETER SATYR SIREN SILLY SHART

Strategy after playing BLAME

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BLAME:

16% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
11% chance
Suggested:
DETER
8% chance
Suggested:
SATYR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.5% →
SNORT 5.98 bits
11.2% →
DETER 5.35 bits
7.6% →
SATYR 5.01 bits
7.3% →
SIREN 4.67 bits
4.7% →
SILLY 4.88 bits
4.2% →
SHART 4.80 bits
3.4% →
TAPER 4.46 bits
3.3% →
TALON 4.20 bits
2.9% →
SETER 4.14 bits
2.7% →
MOUTH 4.85 bits

Research on BLAME

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

Optimal play

Opening with BLAME, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,012 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.77 guesses at best and is rank #735 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it BLAYM.

Rhymes with CLAIM FRAME SHAME FLAME BRAME

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BLAME is a kind of accusation or rebuke.

Synonyms damn pick charge FAULT blessed rap

Opposites blessed

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BLAME sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 43 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 26 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (3.2 of 5).

In a sentence

I blame you for that.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
He is to blame for it.
© tatoeba.org contributor bekindtoall (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).