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ARMET

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɑː.mɛt//ˈɑɹ.mɛt/

Noun

A type of mediaeval helmet which fully enclosed the head and face, first found in the 1420s in Milan.

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

Etymology

From French armet, from Middle French armet, heaumet, from Old French helmet, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *helm (“helmet”). Doublet of helm and helmet.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use ARMET 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 ARMET performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ARMET 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 93 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #497 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 ARMET 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.

5.53 Entropy (bits)
93 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ARMET 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#497 Rank among openers
Opening with ARMET left 2 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 #497 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
82
3 guesses
1,010
4 guesses
1,079
5 guesses
167
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
38%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

ARMET can come back 128 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

283 answers
194 answers
164 answers
95 answers
93 answers
85 answers
76 answers
75 answers
68 answers
63 answers
60 answers
57 answers
56 answers
53 answers
40 answers
40 answers
38 answers
36 answers
36 answers
34 answers
34 answers
32 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1R1M3E1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing ARMET

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ARMET:

12% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
8% chance
Suggested:
SEINE
7% chance
Suggested:
SONLY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.9% →
SOILY 5.73 bits
8.1% →
SEINE 5.41 bits
6.9% →
SONLY 5.12 bits
4.0% →
SOILY 3.55 bits
3.9% →
SCALE 4.79 bits
3.6% →
SOUTH 4.83 bits
3.2% →
SORRY 4.80 bits
3.1% →
SOILY 4.25 bits
2.9% →
SIREE 4.24 bits
2.6% →
SONLY 4.25 bits

Research on ARMET

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

Optimal play

Opening with ARMET, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #179 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 ARMET 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).