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ALULA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈæljuːlə/

Noun

A small projection of three or four feathers on the first digit of the wing on some birds.

Noun

A flower, a species of Hawaiian lobelioid.

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 ALULA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ALULA 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 67.2% of games, misses completely in 32.8%, and leaves about 379 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,818 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

A___A A in the 1st position and A in the 5th position A__L_ A in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _L__A L in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ALULA 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.

3.66 Entropy (bits)
379 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.28 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ALULA 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.

3.89 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.76 Spread of game lengths
#13,818 Rank among openers
Opening with ALULA left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.76 means those games clustered within about 0.76 of a guess of the 3.89 average. It ranks #13,818 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
668
4 guesses
1,205
5 guesses
401
6 guesses
38
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

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ALU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
27%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

ALULA can come back 65 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

778 answers
444 answers
203 answers
114 answers
106 answers
93 answers
78 answers
65 answers
60 answers
41 answers
37 answers
31 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1L1U1L1A1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

TRONE TRACE SENOR TONER STRAE SINCE

Strategy after playing ALULA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ALULA:

33% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
19% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
9% chance
Suggested:
SENOR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.8% →
TRONE 6.15 bits
18.7% →
TRACE 5.62 bits
8.6% →
SENOR 5.03 bits
4.8% →
TONER 4.78 bits
4.5% →
STRAE 4.68 bits
3.9% →
TRONE 4.84 bits
3.3% →
SINCE 4.71 bits
2.7% →
TRONE 5.05 bits
2.5% →
SPACE 3.94 bits
1.7% →
SWIRE 4.40 bits

Research on ALULA

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

Optimal play

Opening with ALULA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.92 guesses and ranks #14,090 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.07 guesses at best and is rank #6,952 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.89, at or below the proven-optimal 3.92, 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

Three syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it UHLOOLUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ALULA is a kind of scale or plume.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ALULA 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).