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LEACH

Yes, LEACH was the Wordle answer on December 1, 2025 (Wordle #1626).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /liːt͡ʃ/

Noun

A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.

Noun

A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.

Verb

To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.

“Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil.”

Verb

To part with soluble constituents by percolation.

“The gangue was leached to recover minerals left behind by the original technology.”

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: December 1, 2025 (#1626).

See the full page for that puzzle: December 1, 2025 (#1626).

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

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How LEACH performs as a guess

LEACH 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 86.6% of games, misses completely in 13.4%, and leaves about 127 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,648 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

L___H L in the 1st position and H in the 5th position L__C_ L in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _E__H E in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LEACH 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.

5.17 Entropy (bits)
127 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LEACH 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#2,648 Rank among openers
Opening with LEACH solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,648 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
944
4 guesses
1,133
5 guesses
181
6 guesses
22
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
31%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C H I L D
L E A C H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches LEACH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

LEACH can come back 122 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

317 answers
288 answers
183 answers
123 answers
112 answers
105 answers
91 answers
91 answers
70 answers
62 answers
57 answers
44 answers
43 answers
43 answers
40 answers
40 answers
36 answers
35 answers
28 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1E1A1C3H4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SNORT TRONE RAYON SOULY TARSE TERSE

Strategy after playing LEACH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LEACH:

13% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
12% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
8% chance
Suggested:
RAYON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.4% →
SNORT 5.89 bits
12.1% →
TRONE 5.33 bits
7.7% →
RAYON 4.99 bits
5.2% →
SOULY 4.68 bits
4.7% →
TARSE 4.60 bits
4.4% →
TERSE 4.63 bits
3.8% →
ATOLL 4.41 bits
3.8% →
TOILE 4.48 bits
2.9% →
GRANT 4.38 bits
2.6% →
SHIRT 4.71 bits

Research on LEACH

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

Optimal play

Opening with LEACH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,381 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 LEACH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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 LEECH.

Rhymes with REACH BEACH TEACH PEACH BEECH

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LEACH is a kind of action or take.

Synonyms STRIP

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LEACH sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.8 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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).