5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

LIMBO

Yes, LIMBO was the Wordle answer on October 20, 2025 (Wordle #1584).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈlɪmbəʊ//ˈlɪmboʊ//ˈlɪmboː/

Noun

A speculative place or state, thought possibly to be on the edge of the bottomless pit of Hell, where the souls of innocent deceased people might exist temporarily until they can enter heaven, specifically those of the saints who died before the advent of Jesus Christ (who occupy the limbo patrum or limbo of the patriarchs or fathers) and those of unbaptized infants (who occupy the limbo infantum or limbo of the infants); (countable) the possible place where each category of souls might exist…

Noun

Chiefly preceded by in: any in-between place, or condition or state, of neglect or oblivion which results in deadlock, delay, or some other unresolved status.

“My passport application has been stuck in bureaucratic limbo for two weeks.”

Verb

To dance the limbo (etymology 2, noun etymology 2, noun sense 1).

Verb

Often followed by under: to pass under something, especially while bending backwards.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: October 20, 2025 (#1584).

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

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How LIMBO performs as a guess

LIMBO is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 75.5% of games, misses completely in 24.5%, and leaves about 243 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,769 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

L___O L in the 1st position and O in the 5th position L__B_ L in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _I__O I in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE TRONE REAST TRINE SATED ATOLL
Words starting with L Words ending with O

First-turn measures

4.23 Entropy (bits)
243 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 34% of evaluated openers
1.72 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LIMBO 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#6,769 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LIMBO ranks #6,769 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
838
4 guesses
1,231
5 guesses
211
6 guesses
16
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ILO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
17%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
I G L O O
L I M B O

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches LIMBO in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

84 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

578
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214
212
111
97
88
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70
45
43
40
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39
28
27
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20
15
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9
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7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LIMBO:

25% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
13% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
9% chance
Suggested:
REAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.5% →
TARSE 6.41 bits
13.0% →
TRONE 5.46 bits
9.1% →
REAST 5.29 bits
9.0% →
TRINE 5.72 bits
4.7% →
SATED 4.43 bits
4.1% →
ATOLL 4.28 bits
3.7% →
SLATE 4.45 bits
3.4% →
SACRE 5.47 bits
3.0% →
REAST 5.23 bits
1.9% →
TALER 4.46 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1I1M3B3O1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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