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

ARLED

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

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

Meaning and pronunciation

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

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Use ARLED in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 96.1% 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 ARLED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ARLED 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 88.1% of games, misses completely in 11.9%, and leaves about 94 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #527 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe ARLED 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.

5.50 Entropy (bits)
94 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ARLED 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
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#527 Rank among openers
Opening with ARLED left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.58 average. It ranks #527 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
79
3 guesses
1,011
4 guesses
1,081
5 guesses
167
6 guesses
13

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AELR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
36%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

ARLED can come back 125 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

283 answers
167 answers
165 answers
110 answers
100 answers
91 answers
89 answers
89 answers
84 answers
75 answers
69 answers
63 answers
51 answers
46 answers
42 answers
41 answers
40 answers
36 answers
32 answers
31 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
23 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1R1L1E1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing ARLED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ARLED:

12% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
7% chance
Suggested:
SCANT
7% chance
Suggested:
SEINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.9% →
HOIST 5.91 bits
7.0% →
SCANT 5.07 bits
6.9% →
SEINE 5.55 bits
4.6% →
SLINK 4.58 bits
4.2% →
TORUS 5.13 bits
3.8% →
STONE 3.72 bits
3.7% →
STANE 4.60 bits
3.7% →
COAST 4.47 bits
3.5% →
TERSE 4.49 bits
3.1% →
COAST 4.43 bits

Research on ARLED

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

Optimal play

Opening with ARLED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #136 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 ARLED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.60, 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).