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GLEBE

GLEBE is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 88.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɡliːb//ɡlib/

Noun

Turf; soil; ground; sod.

Noun

A field or meadow.

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How GLEBE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GLEBE 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 70.9% of games, misses completely in 29.1%, and leaves about 281 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,275 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

G___E G in the 1st position and E in the 5th position G__B_ G in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _L__E L in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GLEBE 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.

4.22 Entropy (bits)
281 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.2% 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 GLEBE 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#9,275 Rank among openers
Opening with GLEBE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,275 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
781
4 guesses
1,262
5 guesses
245
6 guesses
17
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:
EL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
35%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

GLEBE can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

690 answers
259 answers
209 answers
190 answers
89 answers
84 answers
81 answers
77 answers
65 answers
47 answers
38 answers
37 answers
36 answers
32 answers
27 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2L1E1B3E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

COAST OATER LOYAL ROAST LATER ROANY

Strategy after playing GLEBE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GLEBE:

29% chance
Suggested:
COAST
11% chance
Suggested:
OATER
9% chance
Suggested:
LOYAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.1% →
COAST 5.93 bits
10.9% →
OATER 5.06 bits
8.8% →
LOYAL 4.99 bits
8.0% →
ROAST 5.20 bits
3.7% →
LATER 4.39 bits
3.5% →
ROAST 5.13 bits
3.4% →
COAST 4.57 bits
3.2% →
ROANY 4.88 bits
2.7% →
SHART 5.11 bits
2.0% →
SAUNT 4.54 bits

Research on GLEBE

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

Optimal play

Opening with GLEBE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,198 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 GLEBE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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 GLEEB. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, GLEBE is a kind of land.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GLEBE 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), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).