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

BLEAR

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /blɪə//ˈblɪː//ˈblɪjə/

Adjective

Dim; unclear from water or rheum.

Adjective

Causing or caused by dimness of sight.

Verb

To be blear; to have blear eyes; to look or gaze with blear eyes.

Verb

To make (usually the eyes or eyesight) blurred or dim.

Alternative forms: bleer

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

Etymology

From Middle English bleren, from Old English *blǣran, related to West Frisian blearje (“to bleat, shout”), Dutch bleren, blaren (“to bellow, bleat”), German Low German blaren, blarren (“to blare, howl, shriek”), German plärren (“to howl, shriek, blare”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Related meanings

Synonyms blur TIRED

Opposites rested

In a sentence

But Lia was blear-eyed: Rachel was well favoured, and of a beautiful countenance.
© tatoeba.org contributor carlosalberto (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use BLEAR in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% of possible answers.

Open Solver with BLEAR Open Word Finder

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 BLEAR performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BLEAR 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 87.2% of games, misses completely in 12.8%, and leaves about 112 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,141 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

B___R B in the 1st position and R in the 5th position B__A_ B in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _L__R L in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BLEAR 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.

5.26 Entropy (bits)
112 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BLEAR 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#2,141 Rank among openers
Opening with BLEAR left 3 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 3.62 average. It ranks #2,141 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
88
3 guesses
923
4 guesses
1,139
5 guesses
191
6 guesses
10

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AELR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
33%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

BLEAR can come back 124 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

304 answers
197 answers
183 answers
152 answers
123 answers
104 answers
100 answers
97 answers
85 answers
63 answers
58 answers
51 answers
50 answers
47 answers
46 answers
38 answers
32 answers
28 answers
28 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3L1E1A1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

HOIST NOISE SAINT COURT TOISE CHART

Strategy after playing BLEAR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BLEAR:

13% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
8% chance
Suggested:
NOISE
8% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.8% →
HOIST 5.87 bits
8.3% →
NOISE 5.30 bits
7.7% →
SAINT 5.39 bits
6.4% →
COURT 5.23 bits
5.2% →
TOISE 4.61 bits
4.4% →
CHART 4.43 bits
4.2% →
STANE 4.50 bits
4.1% →
SILLY 4.94 bits
3.6% →
TOISE 3.38 bits
2.6% →
TOILE 4.20 bits

Research on BLEAR

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

Optimal play

Opening with BLEAR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,864 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with BLEAR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0).