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ORBED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɔː(ɹ)bd//ˈɔː(ɹ)bɪd/

Adjective

Having the form of an orb; round; spherical.

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 ORBED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ORBED 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 81.3% of games, misses completely in 18.7%, and leaves about 168 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,515 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.

O___D O in the 1st position and D in the 5th position O__E_ O in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _R__D R in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ORBED 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.

4.86 Entropy (bits)
168 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 76% of evaluated openers
1.08 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ORBED 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,515 Rank among openers
Opening with ORBED left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,515 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
74
3 guesses
926
4 guesses
1,162
5 guesses
182
6 guesses
9
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
30%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

ORBED can come back 111 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

443 answers
293 answers
206 answers
110 answers
105 answers
104 answers
91 answers
75 answers
69 answers
64 answers
58 answers
46 answers
46 answers
40 answers
35 answers
33 answers
29 answers
29 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1R1B3E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SAINT SLANT STRAY REATE COAST CLOSE

Strategy after playing ORBED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ORBED:

19% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
12% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.7% →
SAINT 6.06 bits
12.3% →
SLANT 5.86 bits
8.7% →
SLANT 5.32 bits
4.6% →
STRAY 5.02 bits
4.4% →
REATE 4.45 bits
4.4% →
SLANT 3.96 bits
3.8% →
COAST 4.39 bits
3.2% →
SLANT 4.84 bits
2.9% →
SLANT 4.37 bits
2.7% →
CLOSE 4.41 bits

Research on ORBED

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

Optimal play

Opening with ORBED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,583 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 ORBED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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

One syllable Say it AWRBD. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ORBED is a kind of capsule or sphere.

Synonyms ball GLOBE ORBIT revolve eyeball

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ORBED sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.8 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).