LABEL
Yes, LABEL was the Wordle answer on August 12, 2022 (Wordle #419).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ.bəl/[ˈleɪ.bɫ̩][ˈlɛj.b(ə)ɫ]
- Noun
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A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
“We laughed at her because the label was still on her new sweater.”
- Noun
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A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.
“Ever since he started going to the rock club, he's been given the label "waster".”
- Verb
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To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).
“The shop assistant labeled all the products in the shop.”
- Verb
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To give (a label) to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing.
“He's been unfairly labeled as a cheat, although he's only ever cheated once.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English label (“narrow band, strip of cloth”), from Old French label, lambel (Modern French lambeau), from Frankish *lappā (“torn piece of cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *lappǭ, *lappô (“cloth stuff, rag, scraps, flap, dewlap, lobe, rabbit ear”), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“blade”). Cognate with Old High German lappa (“rag, piece of cloth”), Old English læppa (“skirt, flap of a garment”). More at lap.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it LAYBUHL.
Rhymes with TABLE CABLE FABLE GABLE SABLE
Related meanings
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In a sentence
We don't need to label it.
What does the label say?
Use LABEL in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
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
Used oncePast Wordle answer: August 12, 2022 (#419).
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See what the public sample says →LABEL in Connections
5 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #920
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LABEL appeared in BIBLICAL FIGURES PLUS STARTING LETTER (purple group).
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· Puzzle #635
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LABEL appeared in EMBLEM (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #587
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LABEL appeared in INFO ON A RECORD (blue group).
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· Puzzle #548
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LABEL appeared in GIVE A TITLE TO (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #337
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LABEL appeared in FASHION DESIGNER'S OUTPUT (yellow group).
How LABEL performs as a guess
LABEL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.1% of games, misses completely in 19.9%, and leaves about 198 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,984 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe LABEL 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 LABEL 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 LABEL in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
LABEL can come back 93 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 LABEL; 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 LABEL
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to LABEL.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing LABEL:
Research on LABEL
Game-tree analysis and word research for LABEL, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with LABEL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,330 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 LABEL can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.78; proven optimal play reaches 3.75. 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- LABEL sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 27 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 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 77 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.4 of 5).
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).