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

BLITE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /blaɪt/

Noun

The plant Amaranthus blitum, purple amaranth.

Noun

Any of various plants in the genus Chenopodium.

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 BLITE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BLITE 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 85.2% of games, misses completely in 14.8%, and leaves about 120 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,196 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 BLITE 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.

5.23 Entropy (bits)
120 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 93% of evaluated openers
0.71 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BLITE 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#2,196 Rank among openers
Opening with BLITE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #2,196 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
81
3 guesses
931
4 guesses
1,148
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
15
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
2 vowels
Common:
EILT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
40%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

BLITE can come back 120 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

351 answers
204 answers
168 answers
139 answers
119 answers
108 answers
100 answers
82 answers
64 answers
64 answers
59 answers
45 answers
45 answers
43 answers
40 answers
35 answers
34 answers
32 answers
26 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3L1I1T1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing BLITE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BLITE:

15% chance
Suggested:
SONAR
9% chance
Suggested:
SONAR
7% chance
Suggested:
SONAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.8%
SONAR 5.66 bits
8.6%
SONAR 5.23 bits
7.1%
SONAR 4.94 bits
5.9%
COAST 5.37 bits
5.0%
LOYAL 5.01 bits
4.5%
SONAR 4.73 bits
4.2%
DISCO 4.59 bits
3.5%
LEGAL 4.38 bits
2.7%
SNARY 4.57 bits
2.7%
SONAR 4.19 bits

Research on BLITE

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

Optimal play

Opening with BLITE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #748 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 #442 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 3.63, 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 BLYT. 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.