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

ARYLS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of aryl

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

Use ARYLS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% 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 ARYLS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ARYLS 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 88.0% of games, misses completely in 12.0%, and leaves about 113 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,215 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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 ARYLS 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.

5.04 Entropy (bits)
113 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ARYLS 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,215 Rank among openers
Opening with ARYLS 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 3.66 average. It ranks #4,215 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
920
4 guesses
1,156
5 guesses
201
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ALRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
25%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

ARYLS can come back 96 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

286 answers
179 answers
161 answers
150 answers
145 answers
126 answers
110 answers
108 answers
90 answers
87 answers
81 answers
68 answers
44 answers
43 answers
42 answers
40 answers
37 answers
37 answers
34 answers
34 answers
32 answers
32 answers
28 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1R1Y4L1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing ARYLS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ARYLS:

12% chance
Suggested:
TINGE
8% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
7% chance
Suggested:
SIENT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.0% →
TINGE 5.97 bits
7.5% →
ROUET 5.20 bits
6.8% →
SIENT 5.51 bits
6.3% →
CONTE 5.39 bits
6.1% →
BOITE 5.08 bits
5.3% →
CONTE 4.85 bits
4.6% →
BOITE 4.16 bits
4.5% →
CLEAT 4.59 bits
3.8% →
CATER 4.50 bits
3.6% →
STANE 4.77 bits

Research on ARYLS

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

Optimal play

Opening with ARYLS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,138 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,657 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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).