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

ARSIS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɑː(ɹ)sɪs/

Noun

The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat.

Noun

The stronger part of a metrical foot: the part containing the long (heavy) syllable in quantitative meter, or the stressed syllable in a qualitative meter.

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 ARSIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ARSIS 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 84.9% of games, misses completely in 15.1%, and leaves about 162 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,249 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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.
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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__I_ A in the 1st position and I 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 ARSIS.

First-turn measures

All four describe ARSIS 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.

4.57 Entropy (bits)
162 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 57% of evaluated openers
1.38 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ARSIS 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#9,249 Rank among openers
Opening with ARSIS left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,249 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
843
4 guesses
1,156
5 guesses
275
6 guesses
30
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
27%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

ARSIS can come back 80 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

359 answers
290 answers
207 answers
192 answers
141 answers
133 answers
115 answers
92 answers
75 answers
64 answers
64 answers
61 answers
60 answers
57 answers
51 answers
37 answers
29 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1R1S1I1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Try next

CLOTE LANCE LITHE ROUET STOLE COLEY

Strategy after playing ARSIS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ARSIS:

15% chance
Suggested:
CLOTE
12% chance
Suggested:
LANCE
9% chance
Suggested:
LITHE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.1% →
CLOTE 5.76 bits
12.2% →
LANCE 5.45 bits
8.7% →
LITHE 5.13 bits
8.1% →
ROUET 5.08 bits
5.9% →
STOLE 5.06 bits
5.6% →
COLEY 4.66 bits
4.8% →
STALE 4.98 bits
3.9% →
CONTE 4.69 bits
3.2% →
STILE 4.32 bits
2.7% →
PORTE 4.42 bits

Research on ARSIS

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

Optimal play

Opening with ARSIS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,404 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.94 guesses at best and is rank #5,175 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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 AHRSUHS. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ARSIS 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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).