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TABLE

Yes, TABLE was the Wordle answer on December 19, 2023 (Wordle #913).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈteɪbl̩/[ˈt(ʰ)eɪbɫ̩][ˈtʰeɪb(ə)ɫ]

Noun

Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.

“Set that dish on the table over there, please.”

Noun

A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.

Verb

To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.

“to table fines”

Verb

To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.

Alternative forms: tyebble

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: December 19, 2023 (#913).

See the full page for that puzzle: December 19, 2023 (#913).

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

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How TABLE performs as a guess

TABLE 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 87.8% of games, misses completely in 12.2%, and leaves about 102 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,410 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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.

T___E T in the 1st position and E in the 5th position T__L_ T in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TABLE 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.

5.42 Entropy (bits)
102 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.53 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TABLE 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#1,410 Rank among openers
Opening with TABLE solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,410 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
95
3 guesses
939
4 guesses
1,122
5 guesses
184
6 guesses
13
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:
AELT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
40%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B A T H E
T A B L E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TABLE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TABLE can come back 129 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

289 answers
195 answers
155 answers
142 answers
136 answers
94 answers
90 answers
80 answers
80 answers
62 answers
55 answers
51 answers
51 answers
48 answers
41 answers
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29 answers
26 answers
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16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1B3L1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

IRONY SENOR SIREN HOIST CRANK LOCUS

Strategy after playing TABLE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TABLE:

12% chance
Suggested:
IRONY
8% chance
Suggested:
SENOR
7% chance
Suggested:
SIREN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.2% →
IRONY 5.53 bits
8.2% →
SENOR 5.02 bits
6.5% →
SIREN 4.69 bits
6.0% →
HOIST 5.24 bits
5.7% →
CRANK 4.83 bits
4.0% →
LOCUS 4.48 bits
3.8% →
ROANY 3.99 bits
3.4% →
SONAR 4.19 bits
3.4% →
SETER 4.63 bits
2.6% →
LEPER 4.34 bits

Research on TABLE

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

Optimal play

Opening with TABLE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #205 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.71 guesses at best and is rank #54 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61; proven optimal play reaches 3.60. 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 TAYBUHL.

Rhymes with CABLE LABEL FABLE GABLE SABLE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TABLE is a kind of array or furniture.

Synonyms BOARD mesa postpone DEFER REMIT

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TABLE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 112 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 91 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.7 of 5).

In a sentence

This is not a table.
© tatoeba.org contributor serbobosnacroat (CC BY 2.0 FR)
He was at the table.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (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; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).