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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

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).

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 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 86.7% of games, misses completely in 13.3%, and leaves about 126 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,648 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___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

Try next

SNORT TRONE RAYON SOULY TARSE TERSE
Words starting with L Words ending with H

First-turn measures

5.17 Entropy (bits)
126 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 opener: v5 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
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#2,648 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LEACH 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 (3.45 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

122 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

314
287
183
123
110
102
91
90
70
62
57
44
43
41
40
40
36
35
28
21
20
19
18
18
17
15
15
14
14
14

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.

13.3% →
SNORT 5.89 bits
12.2% →
TRONE 5.31 bits
7.8% →
RAYON 4.99 bits
5.2% →
SOULY 4.68 bits
4.7% →
TARSE 4.56 bits
4.3% →
TERSE 4.64 bits
3.9% →
ATOLL 4.41 bits
3.8% →
TOILE 4.47 bits
3.0% →
GRANT 4.38 bits
2.6% →
SHIRT 4.71 bits

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.