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

ABIUS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of abiu

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use ABIUS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.3% 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 ABIUS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ABIUS 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 84.9% of games, misses completely in 15.1%, and leaves about 182 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,273 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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 ABIUS 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.

4.46 Entropy (bits)
182 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ABIUS 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#8,273 Rank among openers
Opening with ABIUS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,273 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
818
4 guesses
1,214
5 guesses
243
6 guesses
21

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AISU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
21%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

ABIUS can come back 85 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

379 answers
361 answers
195 answers
162 answers
159 answers
157 answers
114 answers
71 answers
69 answers
67 answers
62 answers
59 answers
57 answers
42 answers
36 answers
35 answers
29 answers
24 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1B3I1U1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing ABIUS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ABIUS:

16% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
15% chance
Suggested:
TONER
8% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.9% →
CARLE 5.57 bits
15.1% →
TONER 5.76 bits
8.2% →
RONTE 5.10 bits
6.8% →
THALE 4.95 bits
6.7% →
CRONE 5.06 bits
6.6% →
PORTE 5.19 bits
4.8% →
TRONE 4.89 bits
3.0% →
SHUNT 4.13 bits
2.9% →
TRONE 4.05 bits
2.8% →
PLORE 4.99 bits

Research on ABIUS

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

Optimal play

Opening with ABIUS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,097 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.90 guesses at best and is rank #4,113 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, 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).