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

ALURE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A walkway or passageway.

Alternative forms: allure

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

Use ALURE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 96.7% 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

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 ALURE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ALURE 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 91.4% of games, misses completely in 8.6%, and leaves about 78 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,476 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe ALURE 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.

5.59 Entropy (bits)
78 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ALURE 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#3,476 Rank among openers
Opening with ALURE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,476 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
84
3 guesses
921
4 guesses
1,119
5 guesses
205
6 guesses
24

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AELRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
91%
Green tile
38%
All gray
9%

Feedback distribution

ALURE can come back 121 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

204 answers
163 answers
141 answers
130 answers
102 answers
101 answers
88 answers
87 answers
72 answers
70 answers
64 answers
56 answers
54 answers
53 answers
47 answers
47 answers
37 answers
37 answers
37 answers
34 answers
31 answers
31 answers
29 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1L1U1R1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing ALURE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ALURE:

9% chance
Suggested:
STONY
7% chance
Suggested:
NASTY
6% chance
Suggested:
TRIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

8.6%
STONY 5.48 bits
6.9%
NASTY 4.77 bits
5.9%
TRIER 4.19 bits
5.5%
TENET 4.90 bits
4.3%
PRINT 4.74 bits
4.3%
SAINT 4.41 bits
3.7%
SIENT 4.85 bits
3.7%
MUSTY 4.28 bits
3.0%
SONLY 4.41 bits
2.9%
HOLLY 4.72 bits

Research on ALURE

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

Optimal play

Opening with ALURE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,106 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 ALURE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64; proven optimal play reaches 3.64. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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).