BLUES
BLUES is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /bluːz/
- Noun
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plural of blue
- Noun
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A feeling of sadness or depression.
“I've got the blues today.”
- Verb
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third-person singular simple present indicative of blue
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
In reference to the ancient Roman and medieval Byzantine racing faction, a calque of Latin venetī (“Sea-Blues”) or factio veneta (“the sea-blue faction”) and Byzantine Greek Βένετοι (Bénetoi, “Blues”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it BLOOZ.
Rhymes with WHOSE VIEWS SHOES CREWS CLUES
In a sentence
I have the blues today.
I often get the blues.
Use BLUES in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% 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
NoThe solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.
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See what the public sample says →BLUES 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 #747
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BLUES appeared in ___ BROTHERS (purple group).
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· Puzzle #444
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BLUES appeared in BABY ___ (purple group).
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· Puzzle #435
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BLUES appeared in MUSIC GENRES (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #34
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BLUES appeared in MUSIC GENRES (green group).
How BLUES performs as a guess
Wordle accepts BLUES 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 82.6% of games, misses completely in 17.4%, and leaves about 161 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,111 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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.
First-turn measures
All four describe BLUES 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 BLUES 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
Feedback distribution
BLUES can come back 107 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 BLUES; 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 BLUES
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to BLUES.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing BLUES:
Research on BLUES
Game-tree analysis and word research for BLUES, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with BLUES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,983 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 BLUES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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
- BLUES sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 22 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with internal bodily sensation (3.4 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).