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BLOOD

Yes, BLOOD was the Wordle answer on August 29, 2026 (Wordle #1897).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /blʌd//blʊd/

Noun

A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.

“Some insects are known for consuming blood.”

Noun

A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. See blood relative, blood relation.

Verb

To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.

Verb

To initiate into warfare or a blood sport, traditionally by smearing with the blood of the first kill witnessed.

Alternative forms: bloud, bloode, bl00d

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it BLUHD.

Rhymes with FLOOD

Related meanings

Synonyms line STOCK origin rip descent ancestry

In a sentence

I have it in my blood.
© tatoeba.org contributor deniko (CC BY 2.0 FR)
You are the blood of my blood.
© tatoeba.org contributor AmarMecheri (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use BLOOD in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 83.3% of possible answers.

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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: August 29, 2026 (#1897).

See the full page for that puzzle: August 29, 2026 (#1897).

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

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BLOOD in Connections

1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How BLOOD performs as a guess

BLOOD 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 62.9% of games, misses completely in 37.1%, and leaves about 397 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,803 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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___D B in the 1st position and D in the 5th position B__O_ B in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _L__D L in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BLOOD 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.

3.87 Entropy (bits)
397 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
83.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BLOOD 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#9,803 Rank among openers
Opening with BLOOD left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #9,803 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
779
4 guesses
1,211
5 guesses
282
6 guesses
22

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
LO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
63%
Green tile
30%
All gray
37%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
B L O O D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BLOOD in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

BLOOD can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

884 answers
267 answers
183 answers
131 answers
113 answers
107 answers
63 answers
55 answers
53 answers
50 answers
40 answers
31 answers
29 answers
27 answers
25 answers
20 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
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12 answers
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11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3L1O1O1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

TARSE RAISE CARET RAINE SPACE STANE

Strategy after playing BLOOD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BLOOD:

37% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
11% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
8% chance
Suggested:
CARET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.1% →
TARSE 6.41 bits
11.2% →
RAISE 5.40 bits
7.7% →
CARET 5.31 bits
5.5% →
RAINE 5.52 bits
4.7% →
SPACE 5.10 bits
4.5% →
STANE 4.75 bits
2.6% →
CRANE 5.01 bits
2.3% →
LATER 4.02 bits
2.2% →
TIARE 4.69 bits
2.1% →
MARSE 4.58 bits

Research on BLOOD

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

Optimal play

Opening with BLOOD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,303 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 BLOOD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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
BLOOD sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 126 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 90 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.2 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; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).