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

ABURA

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈbjʊ.ɹə//əˈbʊ.ɹə/

Noun

Any tree of species of genus Mitragyna, from the family Rubiaceae:

Noun

The soft pale wood from the abura tree.

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

Use ABURA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 88.7% 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 ABURA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ABURA 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 75.6% of games, misses completely in 24.4%, and leaves about 270 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,795 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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 ABURA 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.

4.00 Entropy (bits)
270 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ABURA 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#11,795 Rank among openers
Opening with ABURA left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,795 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
739
4 guesses
1,224
5 guesses
315
6 guesses
28

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ARU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
21%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

ABURA can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

582 answers
352 answers
305 answers
184 answers
148 answers
81 answers
68 answers
64 answers
62 answers
58 answers
46 answers
43 answers
35 answers
30 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1B3U1R1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing ABURA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ABURA:

24% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
15% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
13% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.4% →
TOILE 6.09 bits
14.8% →
SLATE 5.62 bits
12.8% →
TOISE 5.24 bits
7.7% →
CASTE 4.71 bits
6.2% →
STILE 4.99 bits
3.4% →
CLONE 4.46 bits
2.9% →
BLITE 4.79 bits
2.7% →
SURER 4.63 bits
2.6% →
SEITY 4.60 bits
2.4% →
CLONE 4.85 bits

Research on ABURA

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

Optimal play

Opening with ABURA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,421 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.98 guesses at best and is rank #5,847 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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).