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

WEBER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈwɛbə//ˈveɪbə//ˈwɛbɚ/

Noun

In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux; the flux linking a circuit of one turn that produces an electromotive force of one volt when reduced uniformly to zero in one second. Symbol: Wb.

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How WEBER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WEBER 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 70.0% of games, misses completely in 30.0%, and leaves about 303 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,509 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe WEBER 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.

4.12 Entropy (bits)
303 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 28% of evaluated openers
1.82 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WEBER 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
#10,509 Rank among openers
Opening with WEBER 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 #10,509 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
769
4 guesses
1,239
5 guesses
296
6 guesses
9
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
2 vowels
Common:
ER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
30%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

WEBER can come back 80 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

712 answers
280 answers
278 answers
123 answers
94 answers
78 answers
77 answers
77 answers
52 answers
47 answers
37 answers
37 answers
30 answers
29 answers
27 answers
27 answers
24 answers
21 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4E1B3E1R1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing WEBER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WEBER:

30% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
12% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
12% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.0%
SAINT 5.99 bits
11.8%
SLANT 5.69 bits
11.7%
COAST 5.47 bits
5.2%
COAST 4.86 bits
4.0%
SAINT 3.57 bits
3.3%
SLATY 4.66 bits
3.2%
SLANT 4.56 bits
3.2%
SAULT 4.80 bits
2.2%
SAINT 4.05 bits
2.0%
ROANY 3.96 bits

Research on WEBER

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

Optimal play

Opening with WEBER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,822 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 WEBER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it WEHBUR.

Related meanings

Synonyms wb

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
WEBER sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

In a sentence

Laurent Weber is the archbishop of Portland.
© tatoeba.org contributor CN (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).