5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

BLETS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of blet.

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of blet

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 BLETS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BLETS 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 84.8% of games, misses completely in 15.2%, and leaves about 145 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,566 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___S B in the 1st position and S in the 5th position B__T_ B in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CAIRN RAINE LOYAL TRAIN SPANK SONAR
Words starting with B Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.90 Entropy (bits)
145 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 78% of evaluated openers
1.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BLETS 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
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#2,566 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BLETS ranks #2,566 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
934
4 guesses
1,171
5 guesses
172
6 guesses
11
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ELST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
27%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

98 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

358
306
142
141
137
116
104
92
90
55
47
47
39
37
35
31
29
29
25
24
23
23
23
22
21
20
18
18
16
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BLETS:

15% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
13% chance
Suggested:
RAINE
6% chance
Suggested:
LOYAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.2% →
CAIRN 5.99 bits
13.0% →
RAINE 5.27 bits
6.0% →
LOYAL 5.06 bits
6.0% →
TRAIN 5.36 bits
5.8% →
SPANK 4.93 bits
4.9% →
SONAR 4.71 bits
4.4% →
LEARE 4.80 bits
3.9% →
EATER 4.60 bits
3.8% →
ROAST 4.60 bits
2.3% →
FLANK 4.32 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3L1E1T1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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