BLEAT
Yes, BLEAT was the Wordle answer on February 7, 2026 (Wordle #1694).
As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈbliːt/
- Noun
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The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat.
- Verb
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Of a sheep, goat, or calf: to make its characteristic cry; of a human, to mimic this sound.
- Verb
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Of a person, to complain.
“The last thing we need is to hear them bleating to us about organizational problems.”
Alternative forms: blate, blait
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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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: February 7, 2026 (#1694).
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See what the public sample says →How BLEAT performs as a guess
BLEAT 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 87.8% of games, misses completely in 12.2%, and leaves about 123 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,632 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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First-turn measures
All four describe BLEAT 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 BLEAT 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 BLEAT in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
BLEAT can come back 126 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 BLEAT; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing BLEAT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to BLEAT.
Quick reference
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Research on BLEAT
Game-tree analysis and word research for BLEAT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with BLEAT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,424 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.74 guesses at best and is rank #254 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 3.64, 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 BLEET. Estimated pronunciation
This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, BLEAT is a kind of cry or kick.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- BLEAT 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.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (3.4 of 5).
In a sentence
Benedito heard the buck bleat loudly and wondered if it was in distress.
Ewes bleat to call their lambs, the most gentle and meekest of animals.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).