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.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈæm.bəː/[ˈæm.bəː][ˈæm.bəː] ~ [ˈæm.bɐ̝ː]
- Noun
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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
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A yellow-orange colour.
- Adjective
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Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
- Verb
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To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
“ambered wine, an ambered room”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: December 6, 2022 (#535).
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See what the public sample says →How AMBER performs as a guess
AMBER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 84.2% of games, misses completely in 15.8%, and leaves about 149 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,214 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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First-turn measures
All four describe AMBER 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.
As an opening guess: previous 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches AMBER in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
AMBER can come back 106 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for AMBER; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Strategy after playing AMBER
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to AMBER.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing AMBER:
Research on AMBER
Game-tree analysis and word research for AMBER, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with AMBER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,420 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 AMBER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.69; proven optimal play reaches 3.68. 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.
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it AMBUR.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, AMBER is a kind of yellow or resin.
Synonyms gold
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- AMBER sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 9 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 69 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.2 of 5).
In a sentence
The traffic lights are amber.
The traffic lights are on amber.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).