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ACARA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɑːkəˈɹɑː/

Noun

Any of a number of Central American and South American freshwater fish in the family Cichlidae.

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 ACARA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ACARA 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 69.3% of games, misses completely in 30.7%, and leaves about 336 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,376 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

A___A A in the 1st position and A in the 5th position A__R_ A in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _C__A C in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in ACARA.

First-turn measures

All four describe ACARA 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.

3.70 Entropy (bits)
336 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 12% of evaluated openers
2.24 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ACARA 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#13,376 Rank among openers
Opening with ACARA left 6 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.86 average. It ranks #13,376 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
30
3 guesses
672
4 guesses
1,266
5 guesses
352
6 guesses
28
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

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
26%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

ACARA can come back 56 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

728 answers
371 answers
207 answers
172 answers
129 answers
120 answers
76 answers
71 answers
69 answers
60 answers
52 answers
39 answers
34 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1C3A1R1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

TOILE TOISE SALET STILE TALER BLITE

Strategy after playing ACARA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ACARA:

31% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
16% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
9% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.7% →
TOILE 6.11 bits
15.6% →
TOISE 5.39 bits
8.7% →
SALET 5.27 bits
7.2% →
TOILE 5.22 bits
5.4% →
STILE 5.28 bits
5.1% →
TALER 4.57 bits
3.2% →
BLITE 4.83 bits
3.0% →
CRIPE 4.58 bits
2.9% →
TOISE 4.70 bits
2.5% →
CLOTE 4.42 bits

Research on ACARA

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

Optimal play

Opening with ACARA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.91 guesses and ranks #13,985 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.06 guesses at best and is rank #6,830 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.86, at or below the proven-optimal 3.91, 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

Three syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it AHKAHRUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ACARA sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).