BLOOD
Yes, BLOOD was the Wordle answer on August 29, 2026 (Wordle #1897).
As an opener, it rules out about 83.4% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /blʌd//blʊd/
- Noun
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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
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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
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To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
- Verb
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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.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
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Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: August 29, 2026 (#1897).
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See what the public sample says →How BLOOD performs as a guess
BLOOD 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 63.1% of games, misses completely in 36.9%, and leaves about 393 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
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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.
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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
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:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for BLOOD; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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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:
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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, BLOOD is a kind of humor or disposition.
Synonyms line STOCK origin rip descent ancestry
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).
In a sentence
I have it in my blood.
You are the blood of my blood.
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).