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ARLES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 97.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of earles (“deposit”).

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 ARLES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ARLES 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 90.9% of games, misses completely in 9.1%, and leaves about 72 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,671 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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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Useful pattern pages

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

A___S A in the 1st position and S in the 5th position A__E_ A in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _R__S R in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in ARLES.

First-turn measures

All four describe ARLES 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.

5.64 Entropy (bits)
72 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
97.0% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.31 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ARLES 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#1,671 Rank among openers
Opening with ARLES left 1 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 3.61 average. It ranks #1,671 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
80
3 guesses
950
4 guesses
1,141
5 guesses
164
6 guesses
18
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AELRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
91%
Green tile
34%
All gray
9%

Feedback distribution

ARLES can come back 112 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

215 answers
135 answers
123 answers
116 answers
92 answers
79 answers
75 answers
69 answers
68 answers
67 answers
67 answers
67 answers
64 answers
59 answers
56 answers
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45 answers
45 answers
43 answers
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35 answers
32 answers
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28 answers
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26 answers
25 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1R1L1E1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

COUNT TINGE TANGY SNOUT CLOUD RONTE

Strategy after playing ARLES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ARLES:

9% chance
Suggested:
COUNT
6% chance
Suggested:
TINGE
5% chance
Suggested:
TANGY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.1% →
COUNT 5.60 bits
5.7% →
TINGE 5.08 bits
5.2% →
TANGY 4.73 bits
4.9% →
SNOUT 4.91 bits
3.9% →
CLOUD 4.70 bits
3.3% →
RONTE 3.48 bits
3.2% →
NORTH 4.83 bits
2.9% →
CANAL 4.10 bits
2.9% →
SIENT 4.50 bits
2.8% →
RETRY 4.11 bits

Research on ARLES

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

Optimal play

Opening with ARLES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #461 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 ARLES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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 AHRUHLZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ARLES is a kind of earnest.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ARLES 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.

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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).