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BLINK

Yes, BLINK was the Wordle answer on June 30, 2025 (Wordle #1472).

As an opener, it rules out about 87.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈblɪŋk/[ˈblɪŋk]

Verb

To close and reopen both eyes quickly.

“The loser in the staring game is the person who blinks first.”

Verb

To flash on and off at regular intervals.

“The blinking text on the screen was distracting.”

Noun

The act of quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.

Noun

The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.

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: June 30, 2025 (#1472).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 30, 2025 (#1472).

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

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How BLINK performs as a guess

BLINK 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 69.5% of games, misses completely in 30.5%, and leaves about 291 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

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

B___K B in the 1st position and K in the 5th position B__N_ B in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _L__K L in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

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

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.

4.22 Entropy (bits)
291 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 34% of evaluated openers
1.72 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

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.

3.71 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#7,290 Rank among openers
Opening with BLINK solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,290 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
860
4 guesses
1,193
5 guesses
229
6 guesses
22
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:
ILN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
30%
All gray
30%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
F L I C K
B L I N K

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:

724 answers
242 answers
171 answers
167 answers
102 answers
89 answers
81 answers
75 answers
67 answers
60 answers
52 answers
39 answers
39 answers
38 answers
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32 answers
21 answers
20 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3L1I1N1K5
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Try next

TARSE ROATE SATED OATER STOAE CARET

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:

30% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
10% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
7% chance
Suggested:
SATED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.5% →
TARSE 6.48 bits
10.2% →
ROATE 5.35 bits
7.2% →
SATED 5.12 bits
7.0% →
OATER 5.39 bits
4.3% →
TARSE 5.10 bits
3.7% →
STOAE 5.00 bits
3.4% →
CARET 4.52 bits
3.2% →
TORSE 4.67 bits
2.8% →
TILDE 4.33 bits
2.5% →
URATE 5.14 bits

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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it BLIHNGK.

Rhymes with THINK DRINK BRINK STINK TWINK

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BLINK is a kind of reflex or do.

Synonyms FLASH wink blinking twinkle

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).

In a sentence

Whatever you do, don't blink.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The coffee machine is on the blink.
© tatoeba.org contributor sundown (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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).