AIDER
AIDER is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.
As an opener, it rules out about 95.9% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪdə//ˈeɪdɚ/
- Noun
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A person who aids or assists.
- Noun
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A mountaineer's stirrup or étrier.
“As I was switching my feet in my aiders, the hook popped.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
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See what the public sample says →How AIDER performs as a guess
AIDER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 90.4% of games, misses completely in 9.6%, and leaves about 96 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,432 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe AIDER 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How AIDER 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches AIDER in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
AIDER can come back 123 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for AIDER; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing AIDER
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to AIDER.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing AIDER:
Research on AIDER
Game-tree analysis and word research for AIDER, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with AIDER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.61 guesses and ranks #418 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 AIDER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.61, 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 AYDUR. Estimated pronunciation
This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- AIDER 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.
In a sentence
You're going to be okay; I'm a first-aider.
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).