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ASTER

Yes, ASTER was the Wordle answer on September 11, 2026 (Wordle #1910).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈæs.tə(ɹ)/

Noun

Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.

Noun

A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.

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

Etymology

* From German Aster, originating as a nickname from Middle High German agelster (“a magpie”), owing to the bird being known especially in the Middle Ages for mischievous tricks.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it ASTUR.

Use ASTER in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 96.6% of possible answers.

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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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: September 11, 2026 (#1910).

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The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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ASTER in Connections

1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How ASTER performs as a guess

ASTER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 90.1% of games, misses completely in 9.9%, and leaves about 81 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,510 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

A___R A in the 1st position and R in the 5th position A__E_ A in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _S__R S in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position AS_ER A in the 1st position, S in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ASTER 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.

5.54 Entropy (bits)
81 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ASTER 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#1,510 Rank among openers
Opening with ASTER left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,510 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
955
4 guesses
1,145
5 guesses
158
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AERST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
26%
All gray
10%

Example solver route

R O A T E
T A L E A
A F T E R
A S T E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ASTER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

ASTER can come back 113 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

236 answers
153 answers
135 answers
108 answers
106 answers
89 answers
81 answers
79 answers
79 answers
76 answers
71 answers
65 answers
58 answers
57 answers
51 answers
48 answers
45 answers
44 answers
35 answers
30 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1S1T1E1R1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Try next

COULD GENIE CANAL SOILY CRONY CAIRN

Strategy after playing ASTER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ASTER:

10% chance
Suggested:
COULD
6% chance
Suggested:
GENIE
6% chance
Suggested:
CANAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.9% →
COULD 5.50 bits
6.4% →
GENIE 5.19 bits
5.7% →
CANAL 5.17 bits
4.5% →
SOILY 4.89 bits
4.4% →
CRONY 4.76 bits
3.7% →
CAIRN 4.12 bits
3.4% →
GLACE 4.63 bits
3.3% →
POIRE 4.14 bits
3.3% →
COUNT 4.86 bits
3.2% →
SOILY 3.05 bits

Research on ASTER

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

Optimal play

Opening with ASTER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #544 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 ASTER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ASTER sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).