BLIND
Yes, BLIND was the Wordle answer on September 7, 2026 (Wordle #1906).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈblaɪ̯nd/[ˈblaɪ̯nd]/ˈblaːnd/
- Adjective
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Unable to see, or only partially able to see.
“Even a blind hen sometimes finds a grain of corn.”
- Adjective
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Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive.
“The lovers were blind to each other’s faults.”
- Noun
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A movable covering for a window to keep out light, made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
- Noun
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A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
Alternative forms: blinde
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English blynd, from Old English blind, from Proto-West Germanic *blind, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it BLYND.
Rhymes with LINED GRIND FINED MINED DINED
Related meanings
Synonyms screen dim irrational blinded blindfolded
Opposites sighted rational
In a sentence
It is like he was blind.
You're not blind, are you?
Use BLIND in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 89.3% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: September 7, 2026 (#1906).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #698
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BLIND appeared in WINDOW TREATMENTS IN THE SINGULAR (purple group).
How BLIND performs as a guess
BLIND is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 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 255 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,534 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe BLIND 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How BLIND 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches BLIND in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
BLIND can come back 99 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for BLIND; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing BLIND
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to BLIND.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing BLIND:
Research on BLIND
Game-tree analysis and word research for BLIND, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with BLIND, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,058 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 BLIND can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- BLIND sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 33 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- 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 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 71 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
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).