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ARDOR

Yes, ARDOR was the Wordle answer on November 3, 2023 (Wordle #867).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɑːdə//ˈɑːɹdɚ/

Noun

Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.

Noun

Spirit; enthusiasm; passion.

Alternative forms: ardour

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: November 3, 2023 (#867).

See the full page for that puzzle: November 3, 2023 (#867).

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

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How ARDOR performs as a guess

ARDOR 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 80.0% of games, misses completely in 20.0%, and leaves about 205 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,762 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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 ARDOR.

First-turn measures

All four describe ARDOR 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.

4.54 Entropy (bits)
205 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ARDOR 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#7,762 Rank among openers
Opening with ARDOR left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #7,762 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
839
4 guesses
1,191
5 guesses
253
6 guesses
15
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)
80%
Green tile
31%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ARDOR in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

ARDOR can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

475 answers
376 answers
234 answers
122 answers
89 answers
82 answers
80 answers
62 answers
61 answers
60 answers
55 answers
49 answers
42 answers
40 answers
40 answers
40 answers
37 answers
31 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1R1D2O1R1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

STILE SLATE CLOTE SIREE LEAST TUILE

Strategy after playing ARDOR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ARDOR:

20% chance
Suggested:
STILE
16% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
CLOTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.0% →
STILE 6.08 bits
15.8% →
SLATE 5.62 bits
9.9% →
CLOTE 5.14 bits
5.1% →
SIREE 5.27 bits
3.7% →
LEAST 4.53 bits
3.5% →
TUILE 5.26 bits
3.4% →
SPITE 4.72 bits
2.6% →
BLITE 4.82 bits
2.6% →
SHUTE 4.69 bits
2.5% →
SINCE 3.84 bits

Research on ARDOR

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

Optimal play

Opening with ARDOR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,617 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 ARDOR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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 AHRDUR.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ARDOR is a kind of enthusiasm or love.

Synonyms fire zeal fervor

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ARDOR sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

In a sentence

She still burns with the ardor of youth.
© tatoeba.org contributor shekitten (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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).