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BLEBS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of bleb

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

No

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

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How BLEBS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BLEBS 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 76.9% of games, misses completely in 23.1%, and leaves about 272 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,265 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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___S B in the 1st position and S in the 5th position B__B_ B in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BLEBS 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.

3.93 Entropy (bits)
272 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BLEBS 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#12,265 Rank among openers
Opening with BLEBS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.82 average. It ranks #12,265 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
678
4 guesses
1,322
5 guesses
296
6 guesses
17
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ELS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
23%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

BLEBS can come back 63 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

549 answers
430 answers
247 answers
177 answers
156 answers
132 answers
76 answers
71 answers
51 answers
48 answers
44 answers
40 answers
38 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3L1E1B3S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

TRAIN ROATE SAINT LOYAL STAIR REATE

Strategy after playing BLEBS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BLEBS:

23% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
18% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
10% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.1% →
TRAIN 6.01 bits
18.1% →
ROATE 5.29 bits
10.4% →
SAINT 5.26 bits
7.5% →
LOYAL 5.03 bits
6.6% →
STAIR 4.81 bits
5.6% →
REATE 4.73 bits
3.2% →
TRADE 4.72 bits
3.0% →
FLANK 4.20 bits
2.1% →
STALL 4.43 bits
2.0% →
ROANY 4.56 bits

Research on BLEBS

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

Optimal play

Opening with BLEBS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,710 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.98 guesses at best and is rank #5,902 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.82, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, 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 BLEHBZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BLEBS is a kind of cyst.

Synonyms blister

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BLEBS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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).