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

ALLOD

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Allodium.

Alternative forms: alod

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use ALLOD in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.7% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How ALLOD performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ALLOD 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 77.3% of games, misses completely in 22.7%, and leaves about 247 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,778 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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 ALLOD 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.

4.33 Entropy (bits)
247 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ALLOD 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#8,778 Rank among openers
Opening with ALLOD left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.74 average. It ranks #8,778 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
827
4 guesses
1,183
5 guesses
275
6 guesses
16

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ALO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
26%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

ALLOD can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

540 answers
394 answers
297 answers
101 answers
91 answers
86 answers
68 answers
53 answers
52 answers
52 answers
49 answers
42 answers
40 answers
39 answers
35 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1L1L1O1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing ALLOD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ALLOD:

23% chance
Suggested:
SIREN
17% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
12% chance
Suggested:
TORSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.7% →
SIREN 6.09 bits
16.5% →
TARSE 5.63 bits
12.5% →
TORSE 5.46 bits
4.2% →
STRAE 4.69 bits
3.8% →
SIREN 4.84 bits
3.6% →
DIRGE 4.98 bits
2.9% →
SPICE 4.70 bits
2.2% →
STIRE 4.81 bits
2.2% →
TRINE 4.10 bits
2.2% →
SPICE 4.13 bits

Research on ALLOD

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

Optimal play

Opening with ALLOD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,349 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 ALLOD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).