LEATS
LEATS is an accepted guess. Its modelled answer likelihood is very unlikely; no globally completed appearance is recorded here.
Meaning and pronunciation
- Noun
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plural of leat
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Use LEATS in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 96.4% of possible answers.
Wordle status
Answer chance: very unlikely. Roughly 0.05% within a year (about 1 in 2,113), under the model through 2026-11-05. This is an estimate, not a publisher forecast. How this is calculated.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Earlier benchmark pool
NoMembership in the preserved uniform benchmark; it is not a future eligibility rule.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.
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See what the public sample says →How LEATS performs as a guess
Wordle accepts LEATS as a guess. It is outside this preserved uniform benchmark’s answer pool; that is not a claim about future eligibility.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 90.4% of games, misses completely in 9.6%, and leaves about 86 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #353 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe LEATS 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How LEATS 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
When LEATS is useful later
LEATS tied for the smallest expected survivor count in 2 of 54 sampled positions where it was legal. This designed sample is not a measure of how often real players should use it.
After ADIEU: 4 candidates, normal mode
ADIEU: 02000 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).
Remaining answers: ODDLY, ODOOM, ODORS, ODYLS.
With a budget of 5 more guesses, LEATS is an information probe, outside this survivor list. It leaves 1.00 candidates on average under the model. Every feedback identifies a single candidate; another turn may be needed to submit it.
Try this position in the SolverAfter AUDIO: 3 candidates, normal mode
AUDIO: 11200 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).
Remaining answers: LADDU, SADHU, UNDAM.
With a budget of 5 more guesses, LEATS is an information probe, outside this survivor list. It leaves 1.00 candidates on average under the model. Every feedback identifies a single candidate; another turn may be needed to submit it.
Try this position in the SolverSample and method
Every saved board is reachable within a six-turn game. Remaining turns equal six minus the saved history length. The sampling policy is independent of the expected-survivor metric. Two states at each of three depths per opener were selected by a fixed hash from an independent candidate-only sampling policy. Every accepted guess was evaluated. Model answer-model-2026-11-05-9183a914c959, data through 2026-11-05. The score measures expected survivors, not proved solve length or human difficulty.
How the solver finds LEATS
The strategy receives only earlier guesses and their feedback. It does not know the answer before choosing a move. Guessing the answer itself on turn one is a lucky one-turn result, not a recommended general strategy.
Normal mode
Our solver: bounded weighted policy. Current-pool replay over 14,855 accepted words. Model through 2026-11-05.
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The fixed opener tests its five letters.
14,855 before → 41 after. This feedback leaves 41 candidates.
All 41 surviving candidates
ABETS, ANTES, ASHET, ASSET, BEATS, BESAT, BETAS, CESTA, ETATS, ETNAS, FEATS, FESTA, FETAS, GEATS, GETAS, HEATS, JEATS, KETAS, LEATS, MEATS, METAS, NEATS, NETAS, PEATS, PESTA, SCEAT, SEATS, SEPTA, SETAL, SPEAT, STEAD, STEAK, STEAL, STEAM, STEAN, STELA, SWEAT, USETA, VESTA, WETAS, ZETAS
Decision measures before feedback
Expected remaining candidates: 414.45. Information: 5.74 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.
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Test SETAL against the 41 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.
41 before → 1 after. This feedback leaves 1 candidate.
All 1 surviving candidates
LEATS
Decision measures before feedback
Expected remaining candidates: 1.323. Information: 0.437 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.
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Submit the only remaining candidate.
1 before → 1 after. The answer is submitted and solved.
All 1 surviving candidates
LEATS
Decision measures before feedback
Expected remaining candidates: 1.0. Information: 0.0 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.
Solved in 3 guesses. Uniquely identified on turn 2.
Continue this board in the SolverHard Mode
Our solver: bounded weighted policy. Current-pool replay over 14,855 accepted words. Model through 2026-11-05.
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The fixed opener tests its five letters.
14,855 before → 41 after. This feedback leaves 41 candidates.
All 41 surviving candidates
ABETS, ANTES, ASHET, ASSET, BEATS, BESAT, BETAS, CESTA, ETATS, ETNAS, FEATS, FESTA, FETAS, GEATS, GETAS, HEATS, JEATS, KETAS, LEATS, MEATS, METAS, NEATS, NETAS, PEATS, PESTA, SCEAT, SEATS, SEPTA, SETAL, SPEAT, STEAD, STEAK, STEAL, STEAM, STEAN, STELA, SWEAT, USETA, VESTA, WETAS, ZETAS
Decision measures before feedback
Expected remaining candidates: 414.45. Information: 5.74 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.
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Test SETAL against the 41 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.
41 before → 1 after. This feedback leaves 1 candidate.
All 1 surviving candidates
LEATS
Decision measures before feedback
Expected remaining candidates: 1.323. Information: 0.437 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.
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Submit the only remaining candidate.
1 before → 1 after. The answer is submitted and solved.
All 1 surviving candidates
LEATS
Decision measures before feedback
Expected remaining candidates: 1.0. Information: 0.0 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.
Solved in 3 guesses. Uniquely identified on turn 2.
Continue this board in the SolverHow the fixed opener panel performs on this answer
| Opener | First feedback | Survivors | Normal | Hard Mode |
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| TARSE | 11011 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green) | 41 | 3 | 3 |
| CRANE | 00201 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green) | 103 | 4 | Not solved in six |
| SLATE | 11221 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green) | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| ADIEU | 10010 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green) | 775 | 4 | 4 |
| STARE | 11201 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green) | 20 | 3 | 3 |
| AUDIO | 10000 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green) | 2513 | 4 | 4 |
| RAISE | 01011 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green) | 200 | 6 | Not solved in six |
| ROATE | 00221 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green) | 21 | 5 | Not solved in six |
| SALET | 11111 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green) | 3 | 2 | 2 |
- Normal mode
- 1 guess: 0 · 2 guesses: 2 · 3 guesses: 2 · 4 guesses: 3 · 5 guesses: 1 · 6 guesses: 1 · Failed in six: 0
- Hard Mode
- 1 guess: 0 · 2 guesses: 2 · 3 guesses: 2 · 4 guesses: 2 · 5 guesses: 0 · 6 guesses: 0 · Failed in six: 3
The nine openers use the same pool and continuation policy. Across both modes: 2–6 guesses among successes; 3 of 18 configurations failed. This is performance on this answer, not an overall opener ranking.
30 openers set up a two-turn opportunity; examples include LEAST, PLATE, DEALT, DELTA, TALES, LASTS, SLATE, FLATS, LATTE, LEAPT. After their feedback, this answer is among the most likely survivors with at least half the model probability. This is an opportunity, not a guarantee. An opener that immediately solves is excluded.
A lesson from this route
This route identifies the answer on turn 2. Identifying a unique candidate and submitting it are separate actions.
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How this is calculated
The current policy checks all remaining candidates and up to 128 fixed probes. At six or fewer candidates it uses bounded lookahead, preferring modelled six-turn success, then speed among successes. Larger states use expected survivors as a heuristic. These are recommendations, not proofs of optimal play. Hard Mode retains green positions and revealed letter counts; it allows grey letters and a yellow in the same position. Candidate-only play is stricter.
Feedback distribution
LEATS can come back 126 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for LEATS; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing LEATS
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to LEATS.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing LEATS:
Research on LEATS
Game-tree analysis and word research for LEATS, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with LEATS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.61 guesses and ranks #424 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 LEATS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.61, 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
- LEATS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words in the source corpus. Corpus frequency does not measure every reader’s familiarity.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).