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

ALEEM

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A surname from Arabic.

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 ALEEM performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ALEEM 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 81.3% of games, misses completely in 18.7%, and leaves about 170 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,388 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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 ALEEM 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.

4.78 Entropy (bits)
170 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 70% of evaluated openers
1.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ALEEM 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#7,388 Rank among openers
Opening with ALEEM left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,388 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
807
4 guesses
1,229
5 guesses
226
6 guesses
19
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
32%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

ALEEM can come back 97 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

444 answers
274 answers
223 answers
120 answers
116 answers
116 answers
97 answers
76 answers
59 answers
48 answers
47 answers
47 answers
44 answers
37 answers
34 answers
31 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1L1E1E1M3
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing ALEEM

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ALEEM:

19% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
12% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
9% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.7%
SNORT 5.96 bits
11.5%
TRAIN 5.27 bits
9.4%
NOIRE 5.20 bits
5.1%
SILLY 4.83 bits
4.9%
ORDER 4.00 bits
4.9%
CRATE 4.94 bits
4.1%
SOLAR 4.29 bits
3.2%
MOUTH 4.85 bits
2.5%
SLUNK 3.97 bits
2.0%
TRONE 4.32 bits

Research on ALEEM

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

Optimal play

Opening with ALEEM, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,325 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 ALEEM can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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 second syllable Say it UHLEEM. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ALEEM 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).