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

ABEYS

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

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

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

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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 ABEYS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ABEYS 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 87.5% of games, misses completely in 12.5%, and leaves about 160 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,649 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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 ABEYS 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.

4.54 Entropy (bits)
160 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 54% of evaluated openers
1.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ABEYS 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#9,649 Rank among openers
Opening with ABEYS left 2 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 3.75 average. It ranks #9,649 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
761
4 guesses
1,276
5 guesses
247
6 guesses
18
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:
AES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
15%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

ABEYS can come back 67 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

348 answers
296 answers
227 answers
156 answers
141 answers
139 answers
114 answers
96 answers
67 answers
58 answers
56 answers
56 answers
55 answers
55 answers
50 answers
45 answers
43 answers
34 answers
33 answers
27 answers
27 answers
27 answers
21 answers
18 answers
17 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1B3E1Y4S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing ABEYS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ABEYS:

15% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
12% chance
Suggested:
COUNT
10% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.7%
RIONE 5.21 bits
12.5%
COUNT 5.93 bits
9.6%
CAIRN 5.14 bits
6.6%
CARLE 4.84 bits
5.9%
SPOUT 4.88 bits
5.9%
DIMLY 4.38 bits
4.8%
SNORE 4.63 bits
4.0%
SLANT 4.74 bits
2.8%
TARDY 4.06 bits
2.4%
CRUET 4.45 bits

Research on ABEYS

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

Optimal play

Opening with ABEYS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,063 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 ABEYS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it AYBEEZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.