Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

LEMME

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈlɛmi/

Contraction

Let me.

“Lemme go!”

Alternative forms: lemmie

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 LEMME performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LEMME 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 67.7% of games, misses completely in 32.3%, and leaves about 351 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,169 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe LEMME 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.

3.74 Entropy (bits)
351 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 13% of evaluated openers
2.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LEMME 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#13,169 Rank among openers
Opening with LEMME left 3 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 3.85 average. It ranks #13,169 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
672
4 guesses
1,274
5 guesses
352
6 guesses
19
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
33%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

LEMME can come back 58 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

766 answers
303 answers
244 answers
237 answers
100 answers
83 answers
80 answers
67 answers
41 answers
35 answers
33 answers
31 answers
29 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1E1M3M3E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing LEMME

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LEMME:

32% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
13% chance
Suggested:
FLAIL
10% chance
Suggested:
SONAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.3%
ROAST 6.03 bits
12.8%
FLAIL 4.92 bits
10.3%
SONAR 5.15 bits
10.0%
ROAST 5.19 bits
4.2%
SHART 4.80 bits
3.5%
SONAR 4.95 bits
3.4%
ALTER 4.36 bits
2.8%
SLANT 4.15 bits
1.7%
ENTER 4.02 bits
1.5%
SAUCY 4.29 bits

Research on LEMME

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

Optimal play

Opening with LEMME, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,330 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 LEMME can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.85, at or below the proven-optimal 3.87, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it LEHMUH.

Rhymes with GEMMA LEMMA

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LEMME sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).