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

ALMEH

ALMEH 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.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of almah.

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 ALMEH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ALMEH 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 86.4% of games, misses completely in 13.6%, and leaves about 131 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,735 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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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First-turn measures

All four describe ALMEH 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.

5.04 Entropy (bits)
131 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 85% of evaluated openers
0.90 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ALMEH 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,735 Rank among openers
Opening with ALMEH solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,735 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
901
4 guesses
1,196
5 guesses
175
6 guesses
16
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
2 vowels
Common:
AEL

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

ALMEH can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

323 answers
261 answers
219 answers
152 answers
118 answers
104 answers
88 answers
67 answers
54 answers
54 answers
51 answers
51 answers
46 answers
45 answers
39 answers
38 answers
36 answers
34 answers
34 answers
30 answers
29 answers
27 answers
27 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1L1M3E1H4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing ALMEH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ALMEH:

14% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
11% chance
Suggested:
URINE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.6%
SNORT 5.95 bits
11.0%
URINE 5.20 bits
9.2%
TRAIN 5.32 bits
6.4%
SENOR 4.36 bits
5.0%
CRATE 4.90 bits
4.4%
SILLY 4.83 bits
3.7%
SOLAR 4.30 bits
2.8%
SHORT 4.88 bits
2.3%
RUOTE 4.24 bits
2.3%
TULLE 4.28 bits

Research on ALMEH

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

Optimal play

Opening with ALMEH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,404 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 ALMEH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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 AHMUH. 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.