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

ARIOT

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈɹaɪət/

Adjective

Filled with or involving rioting or riotous behaviour.

Adjective

Filled in an unrestrained manner.

Alternative forms: a-riot

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From a- (“on, in”) + riot.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use ARIOT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 96.3% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How ARIOT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ARIOT 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 91.6% of games, misses completely in 8.4%, and leaves about 89 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #406 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe ARIOT 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.

5.57 Entropy (bits)
89 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ARIOT 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#406 Rank among openers
Opening with ARIOT left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.58 average. It ranks #406 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
81
3 guesses
1,047
4 guesses
1,019
5 guesses
188
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AIORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
92%
Green tile
36%
All gray
8%

Feedback distribution

ARIOT can come back 129 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

241 answers
201 answers
163 answers
110 answers
110 answers
108 answers
87 answers
84 answers
77 answers
50 answers
49 answers
48 answers
45 answers
43 answers
41 answers
38 answers
38 answers
36 answers
35 answers
34 answers
34 answers
31 answers
31 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1R1I1O1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Strategy after playing ARIOT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ARIOT:

10% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
8% chance
Suggested:
PULSE
7% chance
Suggested:
CLONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.1% →
SLANE 5.41 bits
8.4% →
PULSE 5.45 bits
6.8% →
CLONE 5.10 bits
4.6% →
SIDLE 4.86 bits
4.6% →
SERRY 4.55 bits
4.5% →
REUSE 4.78 bits
3.6% →
SLANE 4.78 bits
3.5% →
LATTE 4.64 bits
3.2% →
WORSE 4.16 bits
2.1% →
SCONE 3.43 bits

Research on ARIOT

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

Optimal play

Opening with ARIOT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #774 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.74 guesses at best and is rank #254 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).