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APRON

Yes, APRON was the Wordle answer on June 16, 2022 (Wordle #362).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.pɹən//ˈeɪ.pəɹn/

Noun

An article of clothing worn over the front of the torso and/or legs for protection from spills; also historically worn by Freemasons and as part of women's fashion.

“She tied an apron around her waist before cooking dinner.”

Noun

The short cassock ordinarily worn by English bishops.

Verb

To cover with, or as if with, an apron.

Alternative forms: napron

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: June 16, 2022 (#362).

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

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How APRON performs as a guess

APRON 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 86.5% of games, misses completely in 13.5%, and leaves about 133 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #798 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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___N A in the 1st position and N in the 5th position A__O_ A in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _P__N P in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

STILE SLATE STOLE TRIED LEAST SEITY
Words starting with A Words ending with N

First-turn measures

5.03 Entropy (bits)
133 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 85% of evaluated openers
0.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How APRON 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#798 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, APRON ranks #798 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
1,022
4 guesses
1,069
5 guesses
179
6 guesses
13
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:
ANOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
23%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
A R M O R
A P R O N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches APRON in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

110 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

318
271
171
168
152
135
90
75
68
57
56
47
43
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33
29
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing APRON:

13% chance
Suggested:
STILE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
STOLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.5% →
STILE 6.13 bits
11.5% →
SLATE 5.66 bits
7.3% →
STOLE 5.10 bits
7.1% →
TRIED 5.29 bits
6.4% →
LEAST 4.63 bits
5.7% →
SEITY 5.17 bits
3.8% →
SOOTE 4.31 bits
3.2% →
SALET 4.28 bits
2.9% →
SLIME 4.80 bits
2.4% →
SHIRE 4.38 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1P3R1O1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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