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FABLE

Yes, FABLE was the Wordle answer on January 1, 2026 (Wordle #1657).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪbəl/

Noun

A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.

Noun

Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.

Verb

To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.

Verb

To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.

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: January 1, 2026 (#1657).

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

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How FABLE performs as a guess

FABLE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.4% of games, misses completely in 17.6%, and leaves about 158 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,999 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

F___E F in the 1st position and E in the 5th position F__L_ F in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

HOIST TONER SCANT SIREN SATYR LOUSY
Words starting with F Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.86 Entropy (bits)
158 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 76% of evaluated openers
1.09 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FABLE 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#5,999 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FABLE ranks #5,999 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
840
4 guesses
1,225
5 guesses
209
6 guesses
13
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
40%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S M I L Y
C A D G E
F A B L E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FABLE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

104 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

415
263
185
184
128
91
82
75
69
64
55
51
38
35
33
29
27
23
21
21
20
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18
17
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14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FABLE:

18% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
11% chance
Suggested:
TONER
8% chance
Suggested:
SCANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.6% →
HOIST 5.95 bits
11.2% →
TONER 5.21 bits
7.8% →
SCANT 5.21 bits
7.8% →
SIREN 4.67 bits
5.4% →
SATYR 4.08 bits
3.9% →
LOUSY 4.68 bits
3.5% →
SONAR 4.25 bits
3.2% →
TREAD 4.71 bits
2.9% →
SHART 4.03 bits
2.7% →
REPEL 4.35 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4A1B3L1E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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