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

ASHET

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A large, shallow, oval dish used for serving food.

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

Etymology

From the Scots form of French assiette. Doublet of assiette.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use ASHET 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 ASHET performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ASHET 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 87.8% of games, misses completely in 12.2%, and leaves about 112 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,007 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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 ASHET 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)
112 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ASHET 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#4,007 Rank among openers
Opening with ASHET left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #4,007 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
905
4 guesses
1,191
5 guesses
184
6 guesses
13

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
29%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

ASHET can come back 99 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

291 answers
212 answers
209 answers
148 answers
121 answers
109 answers
78 answers
72 answers
67 answers
51 answers
51 answers
48 answers
47 answers
47 answers
46 answers
37 answers
34 answers
33 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
28 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1S1H4E1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing ASHET

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ASHET:

12% chance
Suggested:
COULD
9% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
9% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.2% →
COULD 5.47 bits
8.9% →
CAIRN 5.11 bits
8.8% →
NOIRE 5.10 bits
6.2% →
OLDER 4.24 bits
5.1% →
GLARE 4.64 bits
4.6% →
SPOIL 4.97 bits
3.3% →
PRONE 4.67 bits
3.0% →
SCALY 4.38 bits
2.8% →
POUCH 4.70 bits
2.1% →
TUTOR 4.47 bits

Research on ASHET

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

Optimal play

Opening with ASHET, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #3,038 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 ASHET can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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).