BLINK
Yes, BLINK was the Wordle answer on June 30, 2025 (Wordle #1472).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈblɪŋk/[ˈblɪŋk]
- Verb
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To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
“The loser in the staring game is the person who blinks first.”
- Verb
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To flash on and off at regular intervals.
“The blinking text on the screen was distracting.”
- Noun
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The act of quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.
- Noun
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The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English blynken, blenken, from Old English *blincan (suggested by causative verb blenċan (“to deceive”); > English blench), from Proto-Germanic *blinkaną, a variant of *blīkaną (“to gleam, shine”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it BLIHNGK.
Rhymes with THINK DRINK BRINK STINK TWINK
Related meanings
Synonyms FLASH wink blinking twinkle
In a sentence
Whatever you do, don't blink.
The coffee machine is on the blink.
Use BLINK in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 87.7% 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: June 30, 2025 (#1472).
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See what the public sample says →BLINK in Connections
4 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1180
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BLINK appeared in TWO SHAKES OF A LAMB'S TAIL (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #1059
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BLINK appeared in INVOLUNTARY ACTIONS (green group).
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· Puzzle #508
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BLINK appeared in THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR EYELIDS (green group).
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· Puzzle #24
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BLINK appeared in BAND NAMES MINUS NUMBERS (purple group).
How BLINK performs as a guess
BLINK 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 69.4% of games, misses completely in 30.6%, and leaves about 294 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,290 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe BLINK 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 BLINK 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 BLINK in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
BLINK can come back 87 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 BLINK; 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.
Try next
Strategy after playing BLINK
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to BLINK.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing BLINK:
Research on BLINK
Game-tree analysis and word research for BLINK, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with BLINK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,283 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.84 guesses at best and is rank #2,502 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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
- BLINK sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 5 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 B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).
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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).