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BLEED

Yes, BLEED was the Wordle answer on September 1, 2021 (Wordle #74).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbliːd/[ˈblɪi̯d]

Verb

To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.

“If her nose bleeds, try to use ice.”

Verb

To menstruate.

Noun

An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.

Noun

A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.

“When taking off at high altitude or at near-maximum weight, the bleeds have to be turned off temporarily, as they decrease engine power somewhat.”

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: September 1, 2021 (#74).

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

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How BLEED performs as a guess

BLEED is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 71.5% of games, misses completely in 28.5%, and leaves about 271 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,799 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

B___D B in the 1st position and D in the 5th position B__E_ B in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _L__D L in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

COAST ROAST LOYAL DROIT STALE RAINE
Words starting with B Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.33 Entropy (bits)
271 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 40% of evaluated openers
1.62 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BLEED 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#7,799 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BLEED ranks #7,799 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
816
4 guesses
1,230
5 guesses
237
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
34%
All gray
28%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
B E E C H
B L E E D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BLEED in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

94 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

671
294
197
128
94
91
85
57
57
56
44
38
38
30
29
27
27
23
22
20
20
17
16
14
13
12
12
10
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BLEED:

28% chance
Suggested:
COAST
12% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
8% chance
Suggested:
LOYAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.5% →
COAST 5.94 bits
12.5% →
ROAST 5.47 bits
8.4% →
LOYAL 5.04 bits
5.4% →
ROAST 4.53 bits
4.0% →
DROIT 5.08 bits
3.9% →
COAST 4.57 bits
3.6% →
STALE 4.56 bits
2.4% →
RAINE 4.60 bits
2.4% →
SHART 5.08 bits
2.4% →
ROAST 4.68 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3L1E1E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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