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LEAST

Yes, LEAST was the Wordle answer on September 1, 2025 (Wordle #1535).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /liːst//list/

Adjective

Chiefly preceded by the: superlative form of little: most little.

“least common multiple”

Determiner

Chiefly preceded by the: superlative form of little: most little.

“He earns the least money in his family.”

Adverb

In a degree below all others; in the lowest or smallest degree.

“My best routine was the one I had practised the least.”

Adverb

Used to form superlatives of adjectives, especially those that do not form the superlative by adding -est.

“It was the least surprising thing.”

Alternative forms: 'least

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: September 1, 2025 (#1535).

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

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How LEAST performs as a guess

LEAST 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 90.4% of games, misses completely in 9.6%, and leaves about 80 possible answers on average.

In the current bounded six-turn policy, it ranks #10 of 182 evaluated openers; exact misses rank first, then average guesses among wins.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #51 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.55 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___T L in the 1st position and T in the 5th position L__S_ L in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _E__T E in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LEAST 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.

5.75 Entropy (bits)
80 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.6% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.20 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LEAST 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.

3.55 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#51 Rank among openers
Opening with LEAST left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.55 average. It ranks #51 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
102
3 guesses
1,042
4 guesses
1,047
5 guesses
143
6 guesses
18
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:
AELST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
37%
All gray
10%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L E A N S
L E A S T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches LEAST in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

LEAST can come back 141 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

229 answers
210 answers
140 answers
108 answers
88 answers
80 answers
79 answers
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49 answers
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23 answers
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21 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1E1A1S1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

IRONY DRONE RAYON COULD NORTH RANGE

Strategy after playing LEAST

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LEAST:

10% chance
Suggested:
IRONY
9% chance
Suggested:
DRONE
6% chance
Suggested:
RAYON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.6% →
IRONY 5.47 bits
8.8% →
DRONE 5.36 bits
5.9% →
RAYON 5.04 bits
4.5% →
COULD 4.73 bits
3.7% →
NORTH 5.10 bits
3.4% →
RANGE 4.34 bits
3.3% →
SCION 4.76 bits
2.9% →
MORNE 4.22 bits
2.9% →
BLEED 4.36 bits
2.7% →
ROYAL 4.04 bits

Research on LEAST

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

Optimal play

Opening with LEAST, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.58 guesses and ranks #16 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.69 guesses at best and is rank #3 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.55, at or below the proven-optimal 3.58, 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 LEEST.

Rhymes with BEAST FEAST YEAST

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LEAST is a kind of thing.

Opposites most

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LEAST sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 275 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 23 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.3 of 5).

In a sentence

That's the least of it.
© tatoeba.org contributor _undertoad (CC BY 2.0 FR)
At least, I was there.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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).