LIBRE
LIBRE is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈliːbɹə//ˈlibɹə//ˈliːbɹeɪ/
- Adjective
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With very few limitations on distribution or the right to access the source code to create improved versions, but not necessarily free of charge.
- Adjective
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Especially of the will: free, independent, unconstrained.
- Noun
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A free (not enslaved) black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
The obsolete “unconstrained” sense is borrowed from French libre (“at liberty”; “free” as in “clear”, “vacant”, “without obligation”), from Latin līber (“free, unrestricted”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”), whence obsolete English lede (“person(s)”), English leud, and German Leute.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
In a sentence
Libre and gratis are two different things.
Tom is into lucha libre.
Use LIBRE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 95.2% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
NoThe solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.
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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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #336
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LIBRE appeared in COCKTAILS MINUS PLACE NAMES (purple group).
How LIBRE performs as a guess
Wordle accepts LIBRE 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 87.2% of games, misses completely in 12.8%, and leaves about 113 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,037 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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.
First-turn measures
All four describe LIBRE 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 LIBRE 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
Feedback distribution
LIBRE can come back 114 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 LIBRE; 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 LIBRE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to LIBRE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing LIBRE:
Research on LIBRE
Game-tree analysis and word research for LIBRE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with LIBRE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,267 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 LIBRE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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
- LIBRE sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).