5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

AREIC

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Of or pertaining to area; especially used to describe a measurement per unit area.

“Areic charge is measured in coulombs per square meter.”

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 AREIC performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AREIC 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 91.1% of games, misses completely in 8.9%, and leaves about 90 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,472 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

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

A___C A in the 1st position and C in the 5th position A__I_ A in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _R__C R in the 2nd position and C in the 5th position

Try next

SLOTH SONLY SOLDE SPILT SORER STALE
Words starting with A Words ending with C

First-turn measures

5.40 Entropy (bits)
90 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.55 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How AREIC 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#2,472 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, AREIC ranks #2,472 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
962
4 guesses
1,107
5 guesses
199
6 guesses
14
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
3 vowels
Common:
AEIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
91%
Green tile
29%
All gray
9%

Feedback distribution

103 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

209
180
162
146
133
128
85
76
72
66
65
61
61
45
41
35
34
32
32
31
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30
26
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19

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AREIC:

9% chance
Suggested:
SLOTH
8% chance
Suggested:
SONLY
7% chance
Suggested:
SOLDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

8.9% →
SLOTH 5.41 bits
7.6% →
SONLY 5.31 bits
6.9% →
SOLDE 5.09 bits
6.2% →
SPILT 5.01 bits
5.6% →
SORER 4.48 bits
5.4% →
STALE 4.93 bits
3.6% →
SNIDE 4.60 bits
3.2% →
TORUS 4.71 bits
3.1% →
SALTY 4.27 bits
2.8% →
SALTY 3.77 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1R1E1I1C3
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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