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BLAZE

Yes, BLAZE was the Wordle answer on November 3, 2024 (Wordle #1233).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bleɪz/

Noun

A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.

Noun

Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.

“They sought shelter from the blaze of the sun.”

Verb

To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.

“The campfire blazed merrily.”

Verb

To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.

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: November 3, 2024 (#1233).

See the full page for that puzzle: November 3, 2024 (#1233).

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

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How BLAZE performs as a guess

BLAZE 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 80.5% of games, misses completely in 19.5%, and leaves about 192 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,777 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___E B in the 1st position and E in the 5th position B__Z_ B in the 1st position and Z 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 BLAZE.

First-turn measures

All four describe BLAZE 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.

4.52 Entropy (bits)
192 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 53% of evaluated openers
1.42 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BLAZE 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#10,777 Rank among openers
Opening with BLAZE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,777 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
716
4 guesses
1,283
5 guesses
282
6 guesses
14
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)
80%
Green tile
38%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
B A D G E
B L A Z E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BLAZE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

BLAZE can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

464 answers
296 answers
220 answers
190 answers
122 answers
116 answers
96 answers
83 answers
78 answers
55 answers
51 answers
42 answers
40 answers
36 answers
29 answers
25 answers
25 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3L1A1Z10E1
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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

Try next

HOIST TENOR CARAT SIREN SILLY SHART

Strategy after playing BLAZE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BLAZE:

20% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
12% chance
Suggested:
TENOR
9% chance
Suggested:
CARAT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.5% →
HOIST 5.94 bits
12.5% →
TENOR 5.16 bits
9.3% →
CARAT 5.06 bits
8.0% →
SIREN 4.64 bits
5.1% →
SILLY 4.95 bits
4.9% →
SHART 4.78 bits
4.0% →
SETER 4.37 bits
3.5% →
ATOLL 4.05 bits
3.3% →
SETER 4.12 bits
2.3% →
SHART 3.61 bits

Research on BLAZE

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

Optimal play

Opening with BLAZE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #8,998 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.92 guesses at best and is rank #4,557 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78; proven optimal play reaches 3.77. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 BLAYZ.

Rhymes with PLAYS RAISE PHASE STAYS CRAZE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BLAZE is a kind of fire or trouble.

Synonyms hell blazing brilliance GLARE

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BLAZE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 5 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 78 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).

In a sentence

Tom died in the blaze.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)
A fire was seen to blaze up far away.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (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).