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

ADDRA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

The mhorr, or dama gazelle.

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 ADDRA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ADDRA 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 68.4% of games, misses completely in 31.6%, and leaves about 388 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,050 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ADDRA 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.

3.45 Entropy (bits)
388 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 6% of evaluated openers
2.50 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ADDRA 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.70% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#14,050 Rank among openers
Opening with ADDRA left 7 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.90 average. It ranks #14,050 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
622
4 guesses
1,248
5 guesses
413
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)
68%
Green tile
17%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

ADDRA can come back 62 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

749 answers
387 answers
375 answers
185 answers
123 answers
71 answers
64 answers
57 answers
39 answers
39 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
13 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1D2D2R1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing ADDRA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ADDRA:

32% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
16% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
16% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.6%
TOILE 6.06 bits
16.3%
SLATE 5.68 bits
15.8%
TOISE 5.45 bits
7.8%
CASTE 4.66 bits
5.2%
TUILE 5.31 bits
3.0%
SHOTE 4.71 bits
2.7%
CLONE 4.92 bits
2.4%
DRICE 4.49 bits
1.6%
CASTE 3.75 bits
1.6%
LEANY 4.39 bits

Research on ADDRA

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

Optimal play

Opening with ADDRA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.91 guesses and ranks #13,965 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with ADDRA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.90, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it AHDRUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.