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LEFTE

LEFTE is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 91.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of leave

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How LEFTE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LEFTE as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 77.3% of games, misses completely in 22.7%, and leaves about 211 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,621 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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___E L in the 1st position and E in the 5th position L__T_ L in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SONAR ROAST SOAPY ROANY BLASE PANEL
Words starting with L Words ending with E

First-turn measures

All four describe LEFTE 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.

4.48 Entropy (bits)
211 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 50% of evaluated openers
1.47 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LEFTE 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#9,621 Rank among openers
Opening with LEFTE left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,621 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
781
4 guesses
1,223
5 guesses
270
6 guesses
21
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
33%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

LEFTE can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

535 answers
235 answers
234 answers
193 answers
170 answers
75 answers
66 answers
63 answers
57 answers
57 answers
51 answers
47 answers
35 answers
34 answers
34 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LEFTE:

23% chance
Suggested:
SONAR
10% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
10% chance
Suggested:
SOAPY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.7% →
SONAR 5.76 bits
10.0% →
ROAST 5.45 bits
9.9% →
SOAPY 4.84 bits
8.2% →
SONAR 5.00 bits
7.2% →
SONAR 5.13 bits
3.2% →
SONAR 4.54 bits
2.8% →
ROANY 4.51 bits
2.7% →
SONAR 4.25 bits
2.4% →
BLASE 3.89 bits
2.4% →
PANEL 4.29 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1E1F4T1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

The science of LEFTE

What game-tree analysis and word research measure about LEFTE — each figure with what it means.

Optimal play

Opening with LEFTE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses — rank #7,738 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.88 guesses at best — rank #3,651 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75; proven optimal play reaches 3.74 — the gap is the price of a fixed strategy.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers) — not the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable — say it LEHFT. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.