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Very unlikely Accepted guess C tier for first-turn info

LEFTE

LEFTE is an accepted guess. Its modelled answer likelihood is very unlikely; no globally completed appearance is recorded here.

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of leave

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

Use LEFTE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.0% of possible answers.

Open Solver with LEFTE Open Word Finder

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

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Earlier benchmark pool

No

Membership in the preserved uniform benchmark; it is not a future eligibility rule.

Past Wordle answer

No completed appearance

No 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.

How LEFTE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LEFTE 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 77.2% of games, misses completely in 22.8%, and leaves about 215 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.
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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__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

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

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)
215 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.0% Avg ruled out

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

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELT

Feedback chances

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

When LEFTE is useful later

No standout example in the positions tested. All 108 sampled states were checked; LEFTE was legal in 55.

Sample 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 this is calculated.

How the solver finds LEFTE

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.

  1. The fixed opener tests its five letters.

    14,855 before → 73 after. This feedback leaves 73 candidates.

    All 73 surviving candidates

    BITTE, BLITE, BOITE, BOTTE, BUTLE, BUTTE, CHUTE, CITEE, CLOTE, COMTE, CONTE, CTENE, CUTIE, DENTE, ELITE, ELUTE, EMOTE, ETHNE, ETTLE, ETUDE, ETWEE, EVITE, EXITE, FITTE, FLITE, FLOTE, FLUTE, FLYTE, FYTTE, GLUTE, HEFTE, HITHE, HOTTE, HYTHE, IXTLE, JETEE, KENTE, KITHE, KITKE, KYTHE, LEFTE, LETHE, LITHE, LITIE, LOTTE, LYTHE, MITIE, MIXTE, MONTE, MOTTE, MTEPE, OCOTE, OUTIE, PLUTE, POETE, PTYPE, QUETE, QUITE, QUOTE, QUYTE, UNITE, UNTIE, UPTIE, UTILE, VOLTE, WEETE, WEFTE, WHITE, WITHE, WYTHE, YENTE, YITIE, ZLOTE

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 414.45. Information: 5.74 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  2. Test OUTIE against the 73 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    73 before → 13 after. This feedback leaves 13 candidates.

    All 13 surviving candidates

    CTENE, DENTE, ETHNE, ETWEE, FLYTE, HEFTE, KENTE, LEFTE, MTEPE, PTYPE, WEETE, WEFTE, YENTE

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 2.718. Information: 1.939 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  3. Test CTENE against the 13 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    13 before → 3 after. This feedback leaves 3 candidates.

    All 3 surviving candidates

    HEFTE, LEFTE, WEFTE

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 1.923. Information: 2.969 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  4. Test HEFTE against the 3 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    3 before → 2 after. This feedback leaves 2 candidates.

    All 2 surviving candidates

    LEFTE, WEFTE

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 1.667. Information: 0.918 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  5. Test LEFTE against the 2 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    2 before → 1 after. The answer is submitted and solved.

    All 1 surviving candidates

    LEFTE

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 1.0. Information: 1.0 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

Solved in 5 guesses. Uniquely identified on turn 5.

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Hard Mode

Our solver: bounded weighted policy. Current-pool replay over 14,855 accepted words. Model through 2026-11-05.

  1. The fixed opener tests its five letters.

    14,855 before → 73 after. This feedback leaves 73 candidates.

    All 73 surviving candidates

    BITTE, BLITE, BOITE, BOTTE, BUTLE, BUTTE, CHUTE, CITEE, CLOTE, COMTE, CONTE, CTENE, CUTIE, DENTE, ELITE, ELUTE, EMOTE, ETHNE, ETTLE, ETUDE, ETWEE, EVITE, EXITE, FITTE, FLITE, FLOTE, FLUTE, FLYTE, FYTTE, GLUTE, HEFTE, HITHE, HOTTE, HYTHE, IXTLE, JETEE, KENTE, KITHE, KITKE, KYTHE, LEFTE, LETHE, LITHE, LITIE, LOTTE, LYTHE, MITIE, MIXTE, MONTE, MOTTE, MTEPE, OCOTE, OUTIE, PLUTE, POETE, PTYPE, QUETE, QUITE, QUOTE, QUYTE, UNITE, UNTIE, UPTIE, UTILE, VOLTE, WEETE, WEFTE, WHITE, WITHE, WYTHE, YENTE, YITIE, ZLOTE

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 414.45. Information: 5.74 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  2. Test OUTIE against the 73 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    73 before → 13 after. This feedback leaves 13 candidates.

    All 13 surviving candidates

    CTENE, DENTE, ETHNE, ETWEE, FLYTE, HEFTE, KENTE, LEFTE, MTEPE, PTYPE, WEETE, WEFTE, YENTE

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 2.718. Information: 1.939 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  3. Test CTENE against the 13 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    13 before → 3 after. This feedback leaves 3 candidates.

    All 3 surviving candidates

    HEFTE, LEFTE, WEFTE

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 1.923. Information: 2.969 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  4. Test HEFTE against the 3 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    3 before → 2 after. This feedback leaves 2 candidates.

    All 2 surviving candidates

    LEFTE, WEFTE

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 1.667. Information: 0.918 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  5. Test LEFTE against the 2 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    2 before → 1 after. The answer is submitted and solved.

    All 1 surviving candidates

    LEFTE

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 1.0. Information: 1.0 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

Solved in 5 guesses. Uniquely identified on turn 5.

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How the fixed opener panel performs on this answer

OpenerFirst feedbackSurvivorsNormalHard Mode
TARSE10002 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)7355
CRANE00002 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)52344
SLATE01022 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)322
ADIEU00010 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)128255
STARE01002 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)10554
AUDIO00000 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)125155
RAISE00002 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)36566
ROATE00022 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)4655
SALET00111 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)4044
Normal mode
1 guess: 0 · 2 guesses: 1 · 3 guesses: 0 · 4 guesses: 2 · 5 guesses: 5 · 6 guesses: 1 · Failed in six: 0
Hard Mode
1 guess: 0 · 2 guesses: 1 · 3 guesses: 0 · 4 guesses: 3 · 5 guesses: 4 · 6 guesses: 1 · Failed in six: 0

The nine openers use the same pool and continuation policy. Across both modes: 2–6 guesses among successes; 0 of 18 configurations failed. This is performance on this answer, not an overall opener ranking.

49 openers set up a two-turn opportunity; examples include FEELS, ELITE, FLEET, RIFLE, FLARE, FLUTE, LITRE, LATTE, LEAFY, LEFTY. 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.

Why this answer can be difficult

The answer contains 2 copies of E. Feedback allocates exact matches before misplaced copies; a grey duplicate does not erase another coloured copy.

The worked board still allows 3 different answers at one later decision: HEFTE, LEFTE, WEFTE. These are mechanical alternatives, not a judgement of vocabulary difficulty.

Vocabulary evidence and voluntary player results are reported separately from these solver observations.

Closest competing answers in this board

These words all fit the earlier feedback, rather than merely sharing similar spelling: HEFTE, LEFTE, WEFTE.

A lesson from this route

Before HEFTE, 3 words still fit. Its feedback left 2; check the full survivor list before choosing the next answer.

Try another opener or a different move

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.

Methods and limitations

Feedback distribution

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

545 answers
238 answers
235 answers
193 answers
173 answers
77 answers
68 answers
63 answers
59 answers
57 answers
52 answers
47 answers
35 answers
34 answers
34 answers
30 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers

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.

Try next

SONAR ROAST SOAPY ROANY ARIEL BLASE

Strategy after playing LEFTE

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

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.

22.8% →
SONAR 5.77 bits
10.0% →
ROAST 5.47 bits
9.8% →
SOAPY 4.83 bits
8.1% →
SONAR 5.00 bits
7.2% →
SONAR 5.12 bits
3.2% →
SONAR 4.62 bits
2.8% →
ROANY 4.53 bits
2.6% →
SONAR 4.25 bits
2.5% →
ARIEL 4.11 bits
2.4% →
BLASE 3.89 bits

Research on LEFTE

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

Optimal play

Opening with LEFTE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #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 and is 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 fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).