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

AROID

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Any plant of the family Araceae, found chiefly in the tropics.

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 AROID performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AROID 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 90.3% of games, misses completely in 9.7%, and leaves about 122 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,903 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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Useful pattern pages

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

A___D A in the 1st position and D in the 5th position A__I_ A in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _R__D R in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe AROID 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.

5.19 Entropy (bits)
122 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 92% of evaluated openers
0.75 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AROID 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#1,903 Rank among openers
Opening with AROID left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #1,903 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
84
3 guesses
956
4 guesses
1,098
5 guesses
199
6 guesses
13
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
3 vowels
Common:
AIOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
32%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

AROID can come back 126 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

320 answers
231 answers
209 answers
125 answers
124 answers
112 answers
107 answers
85 answers
56 answers
54 answers
51 answers
42 answers
41 answers
40 answers
40 answers
38 answers
36 answers
35 answers
32 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
24 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1R1O1I1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

SLATE SLEPT SIENT PALET TERSE COLEY

Strategy after playing AROID

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AROID:

13% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLEPT
9% chance
Suggested:
SIENT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.5% →
SLATE 5.69 bits
9.7% →
SLEPT 5.70 bits
8.8% →
SIENT 5.34 bits
5.3% →
PALET 4.57 bits
5.2% →
TERSE 5.09 bits
4.7% →
COLEY 4.67 bits
4.5% →
SHULE 4.54 bits
3.6% →
TORSE 4.27 bits
2.4% →
RISEN 4.18 bits
2.3% →
CONTE 4.39 bits

Research on AROID

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

Optimal play

Opening with AROID, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #970 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 AROID can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it UROYD. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, AROID is a kind of herb.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AROID sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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).