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

ASWAY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Swaying.

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

Use ASWAY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 85.6% 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 ASWAY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ASWAY 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 69.1% of games, misses completely in 30.9%, and leaves about 344 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,475 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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 ASWAY 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.

3.68 Entropy (bits)
344 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ASWAY 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#13,475 Rank among openers
Opening with ASWAY left 2 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 3.87 average. It ranks #13,475 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
640
4 guesses
1,298
5 guesses
353
6 guesses
24

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
29%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

ASWAY can come back 60 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

737 answers
321 answers
304 answers
174 answers
137 answers
96 answers
78 answers
71 answers
68 answers
53 answers
32 answers
31 answers
25 answers
25 answers
22 answers
19 answers
17 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1S1W4A1Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing ASWAY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ASWAY:

31% chance
Suggested:
TRICE
13% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
13% chance
Suggested:
STIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.9% →
TRICE 6.15 bits
13.5% →
TRACE 5.46 bits
12.8% →
STIRE 5.47 bits
7.3% →
MOILE 4.39 bits
5.7% →
STALE 4.74 bits
4.0% →
CLEAR 4.59 bits
3.3% →
DROLE 4.92 bits
3.0% →
TRADE 3.91 bits
2.9% →
DRONE 5.05 bits
2.2% →
SUITE 3.91 bits

Research on ASWAY

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

Optimal play

Opening with ASWAY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,773 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.04 guesses at best and is rank #6,717 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.87, at or below the proven-optimal 3.90, 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).