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

ACCRA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈækɹə/

Noun

A spicy fritter, originally from Ghana but now typically from Haiti.

Alternative forms: akra

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 ACCRA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ACCRA 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 360 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,563 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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 ACCRA 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.

3.57 Entropy (bits)
360 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.38 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ACCRA 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,563 Rank among openers
Opening with ACCRA left 6 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 3.87 average. It ranks #13,563 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
642
4 guesses
1,270
5 guesses
367
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
2 vowels
Common:
AR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
17%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

ACCRA can come back 64 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

728 answers
371 answers
336 answers
172 answers
136 answers
80 answers
76 answers
69 answers
62 answers
40 answers
37 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1C3C3R1A1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing ACCRA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ACCRA:

31% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
16% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
14% chance
Suggested:
SLATE

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
14.2%
SLATE 5.68 bits
7.2%
TALER 4.44 bits
5.7%
TOILE 5.26 bits
3.4%
LANCE 4.62 bits
3.2%
BLITE 4.83 bits
2.9%
TOISE 4.70 bits
2.6%
CRIPE 4.57 bits
1.7%
SADHE 3.77 bits

Research on ACCRA

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

Optimal play

Opening with ACCRA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.92 guesses and ranks #14,148 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 #6,850 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.87, at or below the proven-optimal 3.92, 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 AHKRAH.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ACCRA sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

In a sentence

Accra is the capital of Ghana.
© tatoeba.org contributor MarijnKp (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The capital of Ghana is Accra.
© tatoeba.org contributor Adelpa (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).