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ARBOR

Yes, ARBOR was the Wordle answer on February 24, 2023 (Wordle #615).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɑːbə//ˈɑɹbɚ//ˈaːbə/

Noun

A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.

Noun

A grove of trees.

Alternative forms: arbour

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: February 24, 2023 (#615).

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

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How ARBOR performs as a guess

ARBOR 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 78.3% of games, misses completely in 21.7%, and leaves about 227 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,408 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__O_ A in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _R__R R in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ARBOR 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.

4.41 Entropy (bits)
227 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 45% of evaluated openers
1.54 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ARBOR 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#9,408 Rank among openers
Opening with ARBOR left 4 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 3.75 average. It ranks #9,408 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
796
4 guesses
1,196
5 guesses
277
6 guesses
23
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
2 vowels
Common:
AOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
30%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
A R M O R
A R B O R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ARBOR in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

ARBOR can come back 96 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

515 answers
385 answers
248 answers
118 answers
96 answers
88 answers
69 answers
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31 answers
28 answers
15 answers
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10 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1R1B3O1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

STILE LEAST CONTE SIREE SERRY SPITE

Strategy after playing ARBOR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ARBOR:

22% chance
Suggested:
STILE
16% chance
Suggested:
LEAST
10% chance
Suggested:
CONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.7% →
STILE 6.08 bits
16.2% →
LEAST 5.53 bits
10.4% →
CONTE 5.15 bits
5.0% →
SIREE 5.28 bits
4.0% →
SERRY 4.32 bits
3.7% →
SPITE 4.77 bits
2.9% →
SHUTE 4.65 bits
2.8% →
SIENT 3.95 bits
2.7% →
STILE 4.79 bits
2.5% →
SEINE 3.74 bits

Research on ARBOR

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

Optimal play

Opening with ARBOR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,538 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 ARBOR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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 AHRBUR.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ARBOR is a kind of tree or shaft.

Synonyms spindle BOWER

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ARBOR sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.6 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).