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

ABACI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈæbəkaɪ//-saɪ//ˈæbəˌkaɪ/

Noun

plural of abacus

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 ABACI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ABACI 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 73.2% of games, misses completely in 26.8%, and leaves about 291 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,474 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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.

A___I A in the 1st position and I in the 5th position A__C_ A in the 1st position and C in the 4th position

Try next

SOREL SIENT TALER STURE ROUSE BLUER
Words starting with A Words ending with I

First-turn measures

All four describe ABACI 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.

3.90 Entropy (bits)
291 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 18% of evaluated openers
2.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ABACI 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#12,474 Rank among openers
Opening with ABACI left 3 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 3.82 average. It ranks #12,474 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
698
4 guesses
1,284
5 guesses
313
6 guesses
21
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
3 vowels
Common:
AI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
24%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

ABACI can come back 59 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

633 answers
378 answers
263 answers
164 answers
107 answers
100 answers
60 answers
59 answers
58 answers
52 answers
49 answers
43 answers
42 answers
39 answers
36 answers
28 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
21 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
7 answers
7 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ABACI:

27% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
16% chance
Suggested:
SIENT
11% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.8% →
SOREL 6.06 bits
16.0% →
SIENT 5.32 bits
11.1% →
TALER 5.54 bits
6.9% →
STURE 5.00 bits
4.5% →
ROUSE 5.48 bits
4.2% →
BLUER 5.17 bits
2.5% →
TRONE 4.89 bits
2.5% →
SHULE 4.39 bits
2.5% →
CATER 4.55 bits
2.2% →
CLONE 4.28 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1B3A1C3I1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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