FLEET
FLEET is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.
As an opener, it rules out about 91.2% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈfliːt/[ˈflɪi̯t]
- Noun
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A group of vessels or vehicles.
- Noun
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Any group of associated items.
- Verb
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To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
- Verb
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To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
Alternative forms: fleete
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
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See what the public sample says →How FLEET performs as a guess
FLEET 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 77.3% of games, misses completely in 22.7%, and leaves about 209 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,672 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe FLEET 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 FLEET 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 FLEET in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
FLEET can come back 104 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 FLEET; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing FLEET
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to FLEET.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing FLEET:
Research on FLEET
Game-tree analysis and word research for FLEET, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with FLEET, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,296 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,314 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.73; proven optimal play reaches 3.72. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.
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, FLEET is a kind of collection or accumulation.
Synonyms pass SWIFT fade dart flutter fast
Opposites slow
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- FLEET sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 21 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 10, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 68 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.4 of 5).
In a sentence
How can I desert the fleet?
The Black Sea Fleet has disappeared.
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).