BLAME
Yes, BLAME was the Wordle answer on March 13, 2023 (Wordle #632).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /bleɪm/
- Noun
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Censure.
“Blame came from all directions.”
- Noun
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Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
“The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.”
- Verb
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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
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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.
Etymology
From Middle English blamen, borrowed from Old French blasmer, from Late Latin blasphēmāre (“to reproach, to revile”), from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Compare blaspheme, a doublet. Overtook common use from the native wite (“to blame, accuse, reproach, suspect”) (from Middle English wīten, from Old English wītan).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it BLAYM.
Rhymes with CLAIM FRAME SHAME FLAME BRAME
Related meanings
Synonyms damn pick charge FAULT blessed rap
Opposites blessed
In a sentence
I blame you for that.
He is to blame for it.
Use BLAME in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% 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: March 13, 2023 (#632).
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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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How BLAME performs as a guess
BLAME 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 83.5% of games, misses completely in 16.5%, and leaves about 148 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.
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Useful pattern pages
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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.
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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
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:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for BLAME; 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 BLAME
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to BLAME.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing BLAME:
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.
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).
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).