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

AMBRY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈæm.bɹi/

Noun

A cupboard or storage area in a church to hold books, communion vessels, vestments, etc. (usually in the sacristy); an armarium.

Noun

A bookcase; a library or archive.

Alternative forms: almery, aumbrie, aumbry, ambery

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 AMBRY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AMBRY 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 77.5% of games, misses completely in 22.5%, and leaves about 234 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,736 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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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Useful pattern pages

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

A___Y A in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position A__R_ A in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _M__Y M in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in AMBRY.

First-turn measures

All four describe AMBRY 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.

4.32 Entropy (bits)
234 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 40% of evaluated openers
1.62 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AMBRY 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,736 Rank among openers
Opening with AMBRY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #6,736 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
860
4 guesses
1,193
5 guesses
235
6 guesses
11
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
28%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

AMBRY can come back 91 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

535 answers
319 answers
307 answers
147 answers
139 answers
70 answers
67 answers
64 answers
61 answers
57 answers
48 answers
37 answers
34 answers
33 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1M3B3R1Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

TOILE TOISE LEAST CASTE SIDLE CLONE

Strategy after playing AMBRY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AMBRY:

23% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
13% chance
Suggested:
LEAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.5% →
TOILE 6.13 bits
13.4% →
TOISE 5.40 bits
12.9% →
LEAST 5.63 bits
6.2% →
CASTE 4.74 bits
5.9% →
SIDLE 4.69 bits
2.9% →
TOILE 5.09 bits
2.8% →
CLONE 4.72 bits
2.7% →
SLANT 4.21 bits
2.6% →
CLINE 4.79 bits
2.4% →
SAICE 4.24 bits

Research on AMBRY

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

Optimal play

Opening with AMBRY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,029 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.87 guesses at best and is rank #3,592 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it AMBREE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AMBRY sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).