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LATHE

Yes, LATHE was the Wordle answer on October 30, 2025 (Wordle #1594).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /leɪð/

Noun

A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.

“He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe.”

Noun

The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.

Verb

To shape with a lathe.

Verb

To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.

Alternative forms: laith, lath

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: October 30, 2025 (#1594).

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

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How LATHE performs as a guess

LATHE 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 89.3% of games, misses completely in 10.7%, and leaves about 94 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,553 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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.

L___E L in the 1st position and E in the 5th position L__H_ L in the 1st position and H in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

GROIN SIDER SIREN SOILY SNORT ACORN
Words starting with L Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.39 Entropy (bits)
94 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.55 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LATHE 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#1,553 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LATHE ranks #1,553 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
83
3 guesses
950
4 guesses
1,128
5 guesses
178
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:
AELT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
36%
All gray
11%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B A T H E
L A T H E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches LATHE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

117 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

252
190
146
126
120
119
90
87
70
70
64
58
54
49
46
36
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LATHE:

11% chance
Suggested:
GROIN
8% chance
Suggested:
SIDER
6% chance
Suggested:
SIREN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.7% →
GROIN 5.55 bits
8.1% →
SIDER 5.10 bits
6.2% →
SIREN 4.73 bits
5.3% →
SOILY 4.64 bits
5.1% →
SNORT 5.21 bits
5.0% →
ACORN 5.03 bits
3.8% →
RANDY 3.96 bits
3.7% →
FLAIR 4.04 bits
3.0% →
CHURN 4.93 bits
3.0% →
RESET 4.66 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1A1T1H4E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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