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BLEND

Yes, BLEND was the Wordle answer on September 4, 2025 (Wordle #1538).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /blɛnd/

Noun

A mixture of two or more things.

“Their music has been described as a blend of jazz and heavy metal.”

Noun

A word formed by combining two other words; a portmanteau word.

Verb

To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.

“To make hummus you need to blend chickpeas, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic.”

Verb

To be mingled or mixed.

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 4, 2025 (#1538).

See the full page for that puzzle: September 4, 2025 (#1538).

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

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How BLEND performs as a guess

BLEND 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 80.4% of games, misses completely in 19.6%, and leaves about 190 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,489 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___D B in the 1st position and D in the 5th position B__N_ B in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _L__D L in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BLEND 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.

4.66 Entropy (bits)
190 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 62% of evaluated openers
1.29 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BLEND 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#2,489 Rank among openers
Opening with BLEND solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,489 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
930
4 guesses
1,198
5 guesses
156
6 guesses
10
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
1 vowels
Common:
ELN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
29%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BLEND in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

BLEND can come back 97 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

466 answers
356 answers
170 answers
126 answers
115 answers
104 answers
84 answers
78 answers
70 answers
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66 answers
37 answers
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Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3L1E1N1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

ROAST TARSE ATOLL COAST REATE RANEE

Strategy after playing BLEND

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BLEND:

20% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
15% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
ATOLL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.6% →
ROAST 6.12 bits
15.0% →
TARSE 5.67 bits
7.2% →
ATOLL 5.03 bits
5.3% →
COAST 5.12 bits
4.8% →
REATE 4.86 bits
4.4% →
RANEE 4.72 bits
3.5% →
STAIR 4.61 bits
3.3% →
SHART 5.24 bits
2.9% →
DROIT 4.94 bits
2.9% →
DEARE 4.61 bits

Research on BLEND

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

Optimal play

Opening with BLEND, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,802 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 BLEND can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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 BLEHND.

Rhymes with SPEND TREND AMEND

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BLEND is a kind of mix or coinage.

Synonyms go mix combine MERGE fuse flux

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BLEND sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 9 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 B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 47 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.8 of 5).

In a sentence

I just want to blend in.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I tried to blend in.
© tatoeba.org contributor Hybrid (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).