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LEASE

Yes, LEASE was the Wordle answer on June 8, 2025 (Wordle #1450).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /liːs/

Noun

An interest in land granting exclusive use or occupation of real estate for a limited period; a leasehold.

Noun

An interest granting exclusive use of any thing, such as a car or boat.

Verb

To grant a lease as a landlord; to let.

Verb

To hold a lease as a tenant; to rent.

“I'm leasing a small apartment in Runcorn for a month while I'm there for work.”

Alternative forms: leaze

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Middle English *lesen, from Anglo-Norman *leser, Old French lesser, laisier (“to let, let go”), partly from Latin laxō (“to loose”) and partly from Old High German lāzan (“to let, let go, release”) (German lassen), cognate with Old English lǣtan (“to allow, let go, leave, rent”) whence let.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it LEES.

Rhymes with PIECE PEACE CEASE NIECE OBESE

Related meanings

Synonyms take let rent letting hire engage

In a sentence

Can you lease a house?
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I didn't pay the lease.
© tatoeba.org contributor Conjuice (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use LEASE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.

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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: June 8, 2025 (#1450).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 8, 2025 (#1450).

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How LEASE performs as a guess

LEASE 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 84.9% of games, misses completely in 15.1%, and leaves about 119 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,744 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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___E L in the 1st position and E in the 5th position L__S_ L in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position LE_SE L in the 1st position, E in the 2nd position, S in the 4th position, and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LEASE 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.

5.24 Entropy (bits)
119 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LEASE 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,744 Rank among openers
Opening with LEASE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #4,744 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
884
4 guesses
1,186
5 guesses
195
6 guesses
19

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AELS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
41%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
L E A S E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches LEASE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

LEASE can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

359 answers
208 answers
140 answers
134 answers
130 answers
105 answers
89 answers
71 answers
70 answers
65 answers
47 answers
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Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1E1A1S1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

COUNT CARAT TONER SNOUT COULD TRINE

Strategy after playing LEASE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LEASE:

15% chance
Suggested:
COUNT
9% chance
Suggested:
CARAT
6% chance
Suggested:
TONER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.1% →
COUNT 5.80 bits
8.7% →
CARAT 4.97 bits
5.9% →
TONER 4.92 bits
5.6% →
SNOUT 5.06 bits
5.5% →
COULD 4.73 bits
4.4% →
TRINE 4.43 bits
3.7% →
ATOLL 4.40 bits
3.0% →
TAPER 4.18 bits
2.9% →
DRICE 4.16 bits
2.7% →
MERIT 4.22 bits

Research on LEASE

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

Optimal play

Opening with LEASE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,878 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 LEASE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LEASE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 15 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (1.9 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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).