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ALIEN

Yes, ALIEN was the Wordle answer on August 6, 2022 (Wordle #413).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.li.ən//ˈeɪ.ljən/

Noun

A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.

Noun

A citizen or national of another sovereign state.

Adjective

Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.

“alien subjects, enemies, property, or shores”

Adjective

Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.

“principles alien to our religion”

Alternative forms: alyaunte, aliene

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: August 6, 2022 (#413).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How ALIEN performs as a guess

ALIEN is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 90.5% of games, misses completely in 9.5%, and leaves about 86 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #891 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

A___N A in the 1st position and N in the 5th position A__E_ A in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _L__N L in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SHORT STARY TORSE CRATE SORER MIDST
Words starting with A Words ending with N

First-turn measures

5.60 Entropy (bits)
86 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.4% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.35 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ALIEN 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#891 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ALIEN ranks #891 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
91
3 guesses
979
4 guesses
1,085
5 guesses
180
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEILN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
38%
All gray
10%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L A D E N
A L I E N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ALIEN in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

135 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

224
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140
104
94
74
68
60
54
52
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43
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36
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ALIEN:

9% chance
Suggested:
SHORT
8% chance
Suggested:
STARY
7% chance
Suggested:
TORSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.5% →
SHORT 5.73 bits
8.0% →
STARY 5.08 bits
7.5% →
TORSE 5.49 bits
5.9% →
CRATE 5.05 bits
4.4% →
SORER 3.99 bits
4.0% →
MIDST 4.67 bits
3.1% →
ROAST 4.31 bits
2.9% →
STONY 4.63 bits
2.5% →
DULLY 4.60 bits
2.3% →
COAST 4.26 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1L1I1E1N1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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