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

BLERT

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

No dictionary definition for BLERT is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 BLERT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BLERT 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 118 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,171 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe BLERT 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.

5.17 Entropy (bits)
118 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.77 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BLERT 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
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,171 Rank among openers
Opening with BLERT solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #2,171 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
82
3 guesses
916
4 guesses
1,180
5 guesses
160
6 guesses
16
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:
ELRT

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

BLERT can come back 118 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

303 answers
203 answers
197 answers
156 answers
142 answers
128 answers
90 answers
76 answers
74 answers
73 answers
56 answers
49 answers
46 answers
39 answers
38 answers
33 answers
32 answers
31 answers
29 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3L1E1R1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing BLERT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BLERT:

13% chance
Suggested:
SONIC
9% chance
Suggested:
SAINE
8% chance
Suggested:
AINEE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.8%
SONIC 5.55 bits
8.6%
SAINE 5.33 bits
8.3%
AINEE 4.44 bits
6.6%
ARSON 4.95 bits
6.0%
LOYAL 5.03 bits
5.4%
SATIN 4.78 bits
3.8%
LEAVE 4.64 bits
3.2%
SPACE 4.21 bits
3.1%
TASTE 4.74 bits
3.1%
SAINE 4.61 bits

Research on BLERT

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

Optimal play

Opening with BLERT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,695 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.76 guesses at best and is rank #434 of the 7,453 openers that can still 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it BLURT. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.