Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

WEAMB

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

No dictionary definition for WEAMB is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use WEAMB in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.5% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How WEAMB performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WEAMB 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 79.6% of games, misses completely in 20.4%, and leaves about 227 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,225 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

First-turn measures

All four describe WEAMB 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.

4.29 Entropy (bits)
227 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WEAMB 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#10,225 Rank among openers
Opening with WEAMB left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,225 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
741
4 guesses
1,283
5 guesses
263
6 guesses
15

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
27%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

WEAMB can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

486 answers
397 answers
263 answers
145 answers
129 answers
108 answers
73 answers
68 answers
64 answers
41 answers
41 answers
40 answers
35 answers
31 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
27 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4E1A1M3B3
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Strategy after playing WEAMB

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WEAMB:

20% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
17% chance
Suggested:
SIREE
11% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.4% →
HOIST 5.83 bits
16.7% →
SIREE 5.40 bits
11.0% →
TALON 5.18 bits
6.1% →
TALER 4.82 bits
5.4% →
SLART 4.63 bits
4.5% →
RONTE 4.38 bits
3.1% →
MUSTY 4.78 bits
2.9% →
BUILT 4.76 bits
2.7% →
SLART 3.84 bits
1.7% →
BATON 4.23 bits

Research on WEAMB

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

Optimal play

Opening with WEAMB, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,285 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.88 guesses at best and is rank #3,718 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).