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LOBBY

Yes, LOBBY was the Wordle answer on March 8, 2026 (Wordle #1723).

As an opener, it rules out about 83.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈlɒb.i//ˈlɑ.bi//ˈlɔb.i/

Noun

An entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor.

“I had to wait in the lobby for hours before seeing the doctor.”

Noun

That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly.

Verb

To attempt to influence (a public official or decision-maker) in favor of a specific opinion or cause.

“For years, pro-life groups have continued to lobby hard for restrictions on abortion.”

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: March 8, 2026 (#1723).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 8, 2026 (#1723).

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

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How LOBBY performs as a guess

LOBBY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 64.7% of games, misses completely in 35.3%, and leaves about 399 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,673 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 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.

L___Y L in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position L__B_ L in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LOBBY 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.

3.55 Entropy (bits)
399 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
83.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LOBBY 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.

3.88 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#13,673 Rank among openers
Opening with LOBBY left 2 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 3.88 average. It ranks #13,673 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
624
4 guesses
1,294
5 guesses
367
6 guesses
26
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
30%
All gray
35%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S C O L D
L O G I N
L O B B Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches LOBBY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

LOBBY can come back 67 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

839 answers
308 answers
254 answers
196 answers
146 answers
71 answers
71 answers
54 answers
50 answers
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34 answers
25 answers
24 answers
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18 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1O1B3B3Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Try next

TIARE RAISE TRONE SAINT CRUET IRATE

Strategy after playing LOBBY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LOBBY:

35% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
13% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
11% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.3% →
TIARE 6.26 bits
13.0% →
RAISE 5.32 bits
10.7% →
TRONE 5.32 bits
8.3% →
SAINT 4.89 bits
6.1% →
CRUET 4.94 bits
3.0% →
IRATE 5.27 bits
3.0% →
SLATE 4.20 bits
2.3% →
SALUE 4.13 bits
2.1% →
TIARE 4.67 bits
1.9% →
ALINE 4.08 bits

Research on LOBBY

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

Optimal play

Opening with LOBBY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,252 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.02 guesses at best and is rank #6,470 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.88; proven optimal play reaches 3.87. 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.

How it sounds

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

Rhymes with BOBBY HOBBY DOBIE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LOBBY is a kind of room or people.

Synonyms hall FOYER

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LOBBY sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 11 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.8 of 5).

In a sentence

Are you in the lobby?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
No one is in the lobby.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).