Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

BLART

BLART is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To sound loudly or harshly; to cry out, wail, lament.

Verb

To bleat, bellow, low.

Noun

A loud noise or cry.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

Origin obscure. Possibly from Middle English *blerten, from Old English *blǣrettan, a variant of Old English *blǣran (compare Middle English bleren, blaren, bloren (“to cry, bellow, wail”) > English blare, blore). Compare also Middle English blurden, English blurt.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use BLART in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% of possible answers.

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How BLART performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BLART as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 85.6% of games, misses completely in 14.4%, and leaves about 124 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #205 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe BLART 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.

5.20 Entropy (bits)
124 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BLART 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.

3.57 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#205 Rank among openers
Opening with BLART solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.57 average. It ranks #205 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
1,053
4 guesses
1,071
5 guesses
150
6 guesses
11

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ALRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
36%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

BLART can come back 118 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

344 answers
255 answers
141 answers
138 answers
136 answers
94 answers
84 answers
72 answers
66 answers
65 answers
63 answers
55 answers
44 answers
38 answers
37 answers
33 answers
33 answers
32 answers
30 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3L1A1R1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing BLART

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BLART:

14% chance
Suggested:
NOISE
11% chance
Suggested:
NOISE
6% chance
Suggested:
CELLO

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.4% →
NOISE 6.02 bits
10.7% →
NOISE 5.22 bits
5.9% →
CELLO 4.93 bits
5.8% →
SAMEN 5.14 bits
5.7% →
HOISE 5.22 bits
3.9% →
PARER 4.53 bits
3.5% →
SALLE 4.48 bits
3.0% →
NOISE 4.93 bits
2.8% →
SHINE 4.70 bits
2.7% →
SOUCE 4.71 bits

Research on BLART

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

Optimal play

Opening with BLART, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #633 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.73 guesses at best and is rank #119 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.57, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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
BLART sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).