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

ARERE

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

No dictionary definition for ARERE is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 ARERE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ARERE 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 78.8% of games, misses completely in 21.2%, and leaves about 191 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,332 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ARERE 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.

4.60 Entropy (bits)
191 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 58% of evaluated openers
1.35 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ARERE 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#12,332 Rank among openers
Opening with ARERE left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.82 average. It ranks #12,332 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
743
4 guesses
1,188
5 guesses
350
6 guesses
27
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

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
41%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

ARERE can come back 76 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

504 answers
309 answers
146 answers
130 answers
108 answers
94 answers
83 answers
81 answers
73 answers
73 answers
61 answers
53 answers
44 answers
40 answers
40 answers
36 answers
36 answers
34 answers
32 answers
30 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
19 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1R1E1R1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Strategy after playing ARERE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ARERE:

21% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
13% chance
Suggested:
SONLY
6% chance
Suggested:
INTEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.2%
SOILY 5.67 bits
13.0%
SONLY 5.10 bits
6.1%
INTEL 4.98 bits
5.5%
SOILY 4.71 bits
4.5%
SOLED 3.87 bits
4.0%
PRINT 4.01 bits
3.5%
SAULT 4.49 bits
3.4%
TORUS 4.86 bits
3.1%
LEANT 4.59 bits
3.1%
CAROL 4.38 bits

Research on ARERE

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

Optimal play

Opening with ARERE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,374 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 ARERE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.82; proven optimal play reaches 3.81. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 second syllable Say it UREER. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ARERE is a kind of tree.

Synonyms SAMBA

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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0).