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

ACAIS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of acai

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

Use ACAIS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.2% 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 ACAIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ACAIS 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 78.8% of games, misses completely in 21.2%, and leaves about 211 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,257 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 ACAIS 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.

4.32 Entropy (bits)
211 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ACAIS 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#10,257 Rank among openers
Opening with ACAIS 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 3.77 average. It ranks #10,257 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
803
4 guesses
1,191
5 guesses
281
6 guesses
32

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
26%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

ACAIS can come back 75 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

506 answers
259 answers
241 answers
223 answers
138 answers
101 answers
97 answers
81 answers
70 answers
67 answers
65 answers
56 answers
55 answers
45 answers
31 answers
26 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1C3A1I1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing ACAIS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ACAIS:

21% chance
Suggested:
TONER
11% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
10% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.2% →
TONER 5.94 bits
10.9% →
TRINE 5.39 bits
10.1% →
TALER 5.49 bits
9.4% →
ROUET 5.47 bits
5.8% →
CRONE 5.35 bits
4.2% →
DROLE 4.88 bits
4.1% →
STILE 4.48 bits
3.4% →
THALE 4.25 bits
2.9% →
COREY 4.59 bits
2.8% →
TALER 4.59 bits

Research on ACAIS

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

Optimal play

Opening with ACAIS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,630 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.93 guesses at best and is rank #4,928 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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).