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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

AMBER

Yes, AMBER was the Wordle answer on December 6, 2022 (Wordle #535).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈæm.bəː/[ˈæm.bəː][ˈæm.bəː] ~ [ˈæm.bɐ̝ː]

Noun

A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.

Noun

A yellow-orange colour.

Adjective

Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.

Verb

To perfume or flavour with ambergris.

“ambered wine, an ambered room”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: December 6, 2022 (#535).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How AMBER performs as a guess

AMBER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 84.3% of games, misses completely in 15.7%, and leaves about 148 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,214 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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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Useful pattern pages

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

A___R A in the 1st position and R in the 5th position A__E_ A in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _M__R M in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY SEINE SLANT COURT SLATE TOISE
Words starting with A Words ending with R

First-turn measures

4.86 Entropy (bits)
148 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 76% of evaluated openers
1.09 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How AMBER 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
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#6,214 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, AMBER ranks #6,214 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
871
4 guesses
1,166
5 guesses
241
6 guesses
12
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:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
24%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G L E A M
A M B E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches AMBER in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

106 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

371
238
227
155
131
115
109
93
75
67
58
45
44
40
35
26
25
24
24
21
21
21
20
18
17
17
14
14
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AMBER:

16% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
10% chance
Suggested:
SEINE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.7% →
SOILY 5.70 bits
10.1% →
SEINE 5.43 bits
9.6% →
SLANT 5.39 bits
6.6% →
COURT 5.13 bits
5.6% →
SLATE 5.15 bits
4.9% →
TOISE 4.54 bits
4.6% →
CHART 4.30 bits
3.9% →
SOILY 3.53 bits
3.2% →
SIENT 4.40 bits
2.8% →
MUSTY 4.71 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1M3B3E1R1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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