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

ALLER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A place in England:

Proper noun

A river in Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony, Germany, a tributary of the Weser.

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 ALLER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ALLER 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 85.8% of games, misses completely in 14.2%, and leaves about 130 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,261 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

A___R A in the 1st position and R in the 5th position A__E_ A in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _L__R L in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in ALLER.

First-turn measures

All four describe ALLER 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.

4.98 Entropy (bits)
130 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.96 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ALLER 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#8,261 Rank among openers
Opening with ALLER 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 3.73 average. It ranks #8,261 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
831
4 guesses
1,205
5 guesses
244
6 guesses
21
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
2 vowels
Common:
AELR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
33%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

ALLER can come back 96 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

338 answers
207 answers
190 answers
175 answers
138 answers
120 answers
102 answers
91 answers
64 answers
60 answers
60 answers
57 answers
57 answers
39 answers
37 answers
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34 answers
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26 answers
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16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1L1L1E1R1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

HOIST SEINE SCANT COURT TOISE CHARD

Strategy after playing ALLER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ALLER:

14% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
9% chance
Suggested:
SEINE
8% chance
Suggested:
SCANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.2% →
HOIST 5.83 bits
8.7% →
SEINE 5.58 bits
8.0% →
SCANT 5.00 bits
7.4% →
COURT 5.20 bits
5.8% →
TOISE 4.53 bits
5.1% →
CHARD 4.31 bits
4.3% →
STANE 4.57 bits
3.8% →
TOISE 3.36 bits
2.7% →
SONDE 4.20 bits
2.5% →
SLUNK 3.93 bits

Research on ALLER

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

Optimal play

Opening with ALLER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,770 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 ALLER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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 AWLUR.

Related meanings

Synonyms RIGHT WHOLE completely totally entirely altogether

Opposites some no incomplete

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ALLER sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).