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WEAVE

Yes, WEAVE was the Wordle answer on April 20, 2026 (Wordle #1766).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /wiːv/

Verb

To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.

“This loom weaves yarn into cloth.”

Verb

To spin a cocoon or a web.

“Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.”

Noun

A type or way of weaving.

“That rug has a very tight weave.”

Noun

Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.

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: April 20, 2026 (#1766).

See the full page for that puzzle: April 20, 2026 (#1766).

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

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How WEAVE performs as a guess

WEAVE 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 72.8% of games, misses completely in 27.2%, and leaves about 276 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,642 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 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.

W___E W in the 1st position and E in the 5th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe WEAVE 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.

4.08 Entropy (bits)
276 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 27% of evaluated openers
1.87 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WEAVE 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.

3.88 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.76 Spread of game lengths
#13,642 Rank among openers
Opening with WEAVE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.76 means those games clustered within about 0.76 of a guess of the 3.88 average. It ranks #13,642 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
639
4 guesses
1,247
5 guesses
374
6 guesses
40
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
38%
All gray
27%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
K N E E D
H E A V E
W E A V E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WEAVE in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.

Feedback distribution

WEAVE can come back 76 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

645 answers
329 answers
195 answers
171 answers
159 answers
104 answers
86 answers
66 answers
63 answers
47 answers
37 answers
34 answers
34 answers
31 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
19 answers
17 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4E1A1V4E1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

COURT TALON SILER NOIRE SLART ALTER

Strategy after playing WEAVE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WEAVE:

27% chance
Suggested:
COURT
14% chance
Suggested:
TALON
8% chance
Suggested:
SILER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.2% →
COURT 5.78 bits
13.9% →
TALON 5.11 bits
8.2% →
SILER 5.06 bits
7.2% →
NOIRE 4.35 bits
6.7% →
SLART 4.62 bits
4.4% →
ALTER 4.65 bits
3.6% →
MERIT 4.24 bits
2.8% →
SAULT 4.18 bits
2.7% →
SLART 3.54 bits
2.0% →
ENTER 3.95 bits

Research on WEAVE

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

Optimal play

Opening with WEAVE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,153 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 WEAVE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.88; proven optimal play reaches 3.87. 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

One syllable Say it WEEV.

Rhymes with LEAVE NAIVE REEVE HEAVE PEEVE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, WEAVE is a kind of design or twist.

Synonyms wind thread tissue wander

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
WEAVE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 75 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.8 of 5).

In a sentence

Where did you weave them?
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)
It's a blanket she will weave.
© tatoeba.org contributor Talwit (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).