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

ALURK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 ALURK performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ALURK 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 84.0% of games, misses completely in 16.0%, and leaves about 159 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,006 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

A___K A in the 1st position and K in the 5th position A__R_ A in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _L__K L in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

SIENT TOISE CASTE HELLO SMITE SALLE
Words starting with A Words ending with K

First-turn measures

All four describe ALURK 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.

4.73 Entropy (bits)
159 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 67% of evaluated openers
1.22 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ALURK 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#6,006 Rank among openers
Opening with ALURK left 3 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 3.69 average. It ranks #6,006 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
901
4 guesses
1,134
5 guesses
238
6 guesses
20
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ALRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
27%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

ALURK can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

377 answers
275 answers
229 answers
160 answers
146 answers
124 answers
123 answers
64 answers
58 answers
53 answers
52 answers
46 answers
45 answers
44 answers
36 answers
36 answers
32 answers
28 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ALURK:

16% chance
Suggested:
SIENT
12% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
10% chance
Suggested:
CASTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.0% →
SIENT 6.13 bits
11.7% →
TOISE 5.31 bits
9.7% →
CASTE 5.26 bits
6.8% →
CASTE 4.78 bits
6.2% →
HELLO 5.03 bits
5.3% →
SMITE 4.81 bits
5.2% →
SALLE 4.85 bits
2.7% →
SURER 4.65 bits
2.5% →
STONE 4.74 bits
2.2% →
SEITY 4.58 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1L1U1R1K5
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

The science of ALURK

What game-tree analysis and word research measure about ALURK — each figure with what it means.

Optimal play

Opening with ALURK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses — rank #5,748 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.84 guesses at best — rank #2,639 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69 — at or below the proven-optimal 3.71 only 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) — not the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable — say it UHLURK. 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.