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BLANK

Yes, BLANK was the Wordle answer on July 20, 2025 (Wordle #1492).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈblæŋk/[ˈblæŋk]/ˈbleɪ̯ŋk/

Adjective

Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.

“blank paper”

Adjective

Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.

“a blank desert; a blank wall; blank unconsciousness”

Noun

The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim.

Noun

A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.

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: July 20, 2025 (#1492).

See the full page for that puzzle: July 20, 2025 (#1492).

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

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How BLANK performs as a guess

BLANK 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 74.0% of games, misses completely in 26.0%, and leaves about 240 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,255 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

B___K B in the 1st position and K in the 5th position B__N_ B in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _L__K L in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BLANK 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.

4.43 Entropy (bits)
240 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 47% of evaluated openers
1.51 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BLANK 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#5,255 Rank among openers
Opening with BLANK left 1 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 3.67 average. It ranks #5,255 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
887
4 guesses
1,173
5 guesses
221
6 guesses
11
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
1 vowels
Common:
ALN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
32%
All gray
26%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
B E E F Y
B L A N K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BLANK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

BLANK can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

618 answers
242 answers
189 answers
181 answers
137 answers
115 answers
81 answers
73 answers
60 answers
47 answers
37 answers
35 answers
33 answers
30 answers
29 answers
27 answers
25 answers
25 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3L1A1N1K5
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Try next

TORSE TARSE TOILE SIDER STIRE TOISE

Strategy after playing BLANK

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BLANK:

26% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
10% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
8% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.0% →
TORSE 6.28 bits
10.2% →
TARSE 5.53 bits
8.0% →
TOILE 5.03 bits
7.6% →
SIDER 5.29 bits
5.8% →
STIRE 5.16 bits
4.8% →
TARSE 4.64 bits
3.4% →
TOISE 4.84 bits
3.1% →
CANOE 4.49 bits
2.5% →
SUITE 4.59 bits
2.0% →
RUOTE 4.79 bits

Research on BLANK

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

Optimal play

Opening with BLANK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,400 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,743 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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 BLANGK.

Rhymes with THANK FRANK DRANK PRANK FLANK

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BLANK is a kind of character or gap.

Synonyms WHITE SPACE CLEAN UTTER DUMMY complete

Opposites full loaded incomplete

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BLANK sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 14 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 A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 60 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.6 of 5).

In a sentence

My mind is a blank.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)
But this list is blank.
© tatoeba.org contributor maaster (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).