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BUTTE

Yes, BUTTE was the Wordle answer on July 16, 2026 (Wordle #1853).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbjuːt//ˈbʌt/

Noun

An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.

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: July 16, 2026 (#1853).

See the full page for that puzzle: July 16, 2026 (#1853).

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

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How BUTTE performs as a guess

BUTTE 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 75.1% of games, misses completely in 24.9%, and leaves about 259 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,946 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___E B in the 1st position and E in the 5th position B__T_ B in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _U__E U in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BUTTE 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.

4.23 Entropy (bits)
259 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.1% 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 BUTTE 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#10,946 Rank among openers
Opening with BUTTE left 3 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 3.78 average. It ranks #10,946 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
722
4 guesses
1,258
5 guesses
286
6 guesses
24
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ETU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
37%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
M U S I C
B U T T E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BUTTE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

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

591 answers
363 answers
238 answers
168 answers
110 answers
101 answers
91 answers
60 answers
49 answers
43 answers
39 answers
33 answers
33 answers
32 answers
31 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3U1T1T1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

CAROL SOLAR SORAL ROAST SLART SLUNG

Strategy after playing BUTTE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BUTTE:

25% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
15% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
10% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.9% →
CAROL 5.94 bits
15.3% →
SOLAR 5.15 bits
10.0% →
SORAL 4.85 bits
7.1% →
ROAST 5.40 bits
4.6% →
SLART 4.88 bits
4.3% →
SLUNG 4.80 bits
3.8% →
SCARY 4.07 bits
2.5% →
SONAR 4.82 bits
2.1% →
SNOUT 4.29 bits
1.8% →
RAINY 4.41 bits

Research on BUTTE

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

Optimal play

Opening with BUTTE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,244 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.00 guesses at best and is rank #6,150 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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 BYOOT.

Rhymes with SHOOT ROUTE FRUIT ACUTE FLUTE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BUTTE is a kind of hill.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BUTTE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

In a sentence

A volcanic butte overlooked the barren landscape.
© tatoeba.org contributor Lumi (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).