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TABBY

Yes, TABBY was the Wordle answer on November 10, 2025 (Wordle #1605).

As an opener, it rules out about 86.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtæb.i/

Noun

A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.

Noun

A concrete mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.

Adjective

Having a wavy or watered appearance.

“a tabby waistcoat”

Adjective

Brindled; diversified in color.

“a tabby cat”

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: November 10, 2025 (#1605).

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

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How TABBY performs as a guess

TABBY 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 70.9% of games, misses completely in 29.1%, and leaves about 314 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,598 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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.

T___Y T in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position T__B_ T in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

CRISE SLANE SHIER MOILE SIREN LEAST
Words starting with T Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.80 Entropy (bits)
314 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
86.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 15% of evaluated openers
2.15 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TABBY 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#12,598 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TABBY ranks #12,598 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
683
4 guesses
1,288
5 guesses
314
6 guesses
25
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
33%
All gray
29%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C L I N T
T A B B Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TABBY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

68 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

687
345
251
176
130
120
81
74
51
49
38
37
35
29
27
22
17
17
15
13
12
10
10
8
7
7
6
6
6
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TABBY:

29% chance
Suggested:
CRISE
15% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
11% chance
Suggested:
SHIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.1% →
CRISE 6.04 bits
14.6% →
SLANE 5.40 bits
10.6% →
SHIER 5.53 bits
7.5% →
MOILE 4.56 bits
5.5% →
SIREN 4.77 bits
5.1% →
LEAST 4.90 bits
3.4% →
NOIRE 5.05 bits
3.1% →
CLONE 5.03 bits
2.2% →
SNIDE 3.45 bits
2.1% →
CLINE 4.08 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1B3B3Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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