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

AIERY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Obsolete form of eyrie.

Adjective

Obsolete form of aery.

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 AIERY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AIERY 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 93.0% of games, misses completely in 7.0%, and leaves about 89 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,513 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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 AIERY 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.

5.34 Entropy (bits)
89 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.61 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AIERY 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#6,513 Rank among openers
Opening with AIERY left 3 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 3.69 average. It ranks #6,513 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
864
4 guesses
1,152
5 guesses
237
6 guesses
26
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

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
93%
Green tile
38%
All gray
7%

Feedback distribution

AIERY can come back 110 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

178 answers
168 answers
165 answers
148 answers
146 answers
120 answers
98 answers
96 answers
86 answers
82 answers
68 answers
67 answers
65 answers
52 answers
44 answers
43 answers
41 answers
40 answers
32 answers
31 answers
30 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1I1E1R1Y4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing AIERY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AIERY:

7% chance
Suggested:
COAST
7% chance
Suggested:
SOLDE
7% chance
Suggested:
SHUNT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

7.5%
COAST 5.11 bits
7.1%
SOLDE 5.08 bits
7.0%
SHUNT 5.51 bits
6.2%
TOUSE 4.72 bits
6.1%
LATHE 4.75 bits
5.1%
SPILT 4.91 bits
4.1%
SOLDE 4.11 bits
4.0%
TROOP 4.50 bits
3.6%
SENTE 4.47 bits
3.5%
COAST 4.19 bits

Research on AIERY

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

Optimal play

Opening with AIERY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #5,066 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 AIERY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 AYREE. 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.