SABRE
SABRE is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈseɪ.bə//ˈseɪ.bɚ/
- Noun
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A light sword with a curved blade, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point.
- Noun
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A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre.
- Verb
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To strike or kill with a sabre.
- Verb
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To open (a bottle) via sabrage.
Alternative forms: saber
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Borrowed from French sabre, from German Säbel, from Polish szabla, from Hungarian szablya. Cognate with Danish sabel, Russian са́бля (sáblja), Serbo-Croatian сабља, Sicilian sciàbbula.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it SAYBUR.
Rhymes with LABOR SABER TABOR TABER SABIR
Related meanings
Synonyms SABER
In a sentence
The princess gave her lover a sabre covered with gold.
Use SABRE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 96.1% 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.
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See what the public sample says →How SABRE performs as a guess
Wordle accepts SABRE 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 87.9% of games, misses completely in 12.1%, and leaves about 94 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,479 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe SABRE 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 SABRE 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
SABRE can come back 119 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 SABRE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing SABRE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SABRE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing SABRE:
Research on SABRE
Game-tree analysis and word research for SABRE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with SABRE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #535 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 SABRE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.63; proven optimal play reaches 3.62. 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- SABRE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).