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

AMARI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.0% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of amaro

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 AMARI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AMARI 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 80.6% of games, misses completely in 19.4%, and leaves about 214 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,974 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe AMARI 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.

4.28 Entropy (bits)
214 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 37% of evaluated openers
1.67 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AMARI 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#10,974 Rank among openers
Opening with AMARI left 3 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 3.78 average. It ranks #10,974 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
758
4 guesses
1,210
5 guesses
310
6 guesses
21
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
24%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

AMARI can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

460 answers
321 answers
282 answers
213 answers
135 answers
121 answers
104 answers
76 answers
57 answers
53 answers
47 answers
42 answers
36 answers
36 answers
35 answers
28 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1M3A1R1I1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing AMARI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AMARI:

19% chance
Suggested:
STOLE
14% chance
Suggested:
SIENT
12% chance
Suggested:
TOUSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.4%
STOLE 5.98 bits
13.5%
SIENT 5.36 bits
11.9%
TOUSE 5.41 bits
9.0%
CLOTE 5.16 bits
5.7%
STOLE 5.06 bits
5.1%
SNIDE 4.44 bits
4.4%
PALET 4.54 bits
3.2%
POLEY 4.83 bits
2.4%
CONTE 3.96 bits
2.2%
SUETY 4.43 bits

Research on AMARI

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

Optimal play

Opening with AMARI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,401 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.93 guesses at best and is rank #4,966 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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 AHMAHREE.

Rhymes with SORRY IMARI CHARY

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AMARI sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).