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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier for first-turn info

CUBIT

Yes, CUBIT was the Wordle answer on April 16, 2026 (Wordle #1762).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkjuː.bɪt//ˈkju.bɪt/

Noun

The distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger used as an informal unit of length.

Noun

Any of various units of length approximating this distance, usually around 35–60 cm.

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: April 16, 2026 (#1762).

See the full page for that puzzle: April 16, 2026 (#1762).

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

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How CUBIT performs as a guess

CUBIT 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 73.7% of games, misses completely in 26.3%, and leaves about 235 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,144 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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.

C___T C in the 1st position and T in the 5th position C__I_ C in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _U__T U in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CUBIT 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.

4.52 Entropy (bits)
235 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 53% of evaluated openers
1.43 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CUBIT 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#4,144 Rank among openers
Opening with CUBIT left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,144 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
946
4 guesses
1,101
5 guesses
228
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:
ITU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
32%
All gray
26%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S H U N T
B A D G E
C U B I T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CUBIT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CUBIT can come back 99 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

624 answers
242 answers
206 answers
103 answers
101 answers
90 answers
85 answers
84 answers
75 answers
65 answers
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52 answers
33 answers
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12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3U1B3I1T1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

RANSE RINSE TARTE SNORE SOARE REACH

Strategy after playing CUBIT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CUBIT:

26% chance
Suggested:
RANSE
10% chance
Suggested:
RINSE
9% chance
Suggested:
TARTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.3% →
RANSE 6.05 bits
10.2% →
RINSE 5.27 bits
8.7% →
TARTE 5.68 bits
4.3% →
SNORE 5.10 bits
4.3% →
SOARE 5.16 bits
3.8% →
REACH 5.26 bits
3.6% →
DROLE 5.28 bits
3.5% →
MARSE 4.63 bits
3.2% →
SERAL 5.16 bits
2.7% →
TRITE 4.51 bits

Research on CUBIT

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

Optimal play

Opening with CUBIT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #5,096 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,195 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KYOOBIHT.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CUBIT is a kind of unit.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CUBIT sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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).