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AULIC

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.lɪk/

Adjective

Of or pertaining to a royal court; courtly.

Adjective

Of, pertaining to, or resembling a palace.

Noun

A ceremony at some European universities to confer a Doctor of Divinity degree.

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

Etymology

From Latin aulicus (“of a prince's court”), from aula (“royal court”), from Ancient Greek αὐλή (aulḗ, “courtyard”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use AULIC in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

Open Solver with AULIC Open Word Finder

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 AULIC performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AULIC 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 85.3% of games, misses completely in 14.7%, and leaves about 155 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,890 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

A___C A in the 1st position and C in the 5th position A__I_ A in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _U__C U in the 2nd position and C in the 5th position AU_IC A in the 1st position, U in the 2nd position, I in the 4th position, and C in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe AULIC 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.

4.76 Entropy (bits)
155 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AULIC 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
99.83% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,890 Rank among openers
Opening with AULIC left 4 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 3.65 average. It ranks #3,890 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
948
4 guesses
1,141
5 guesses
192
6 guesses
19

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AILU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
23%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

AULIC can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

351 answers
304 answers
244 answers
131 answers
113 answers
110 answers
109 answers
91 answers
85 answers
65 answers
62 answers
50 answers
39 answers
38 answers
36 answers
34 answers
34 answers
34 answers
29 answers
28 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1U1L1I1C3
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

TORSE TARSE TRINE REAST SOWER STONE

Strategy after playing AULIC

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AULIC:

15% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
13% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.7% →
TORSE 6.02 bits
12.8% →
TARSE 5.60 bits
10.2% →
TRINE 5.42 bits
5.5% →
REAST 4.89 bits
4.7% →
SOWER 4.95 bits
4.6% →
STONE 5.33 bits
4.6% →
CRATE 5.10 bits
3.8% →
MORSE 4.56 bits
3.6% →
CRONE 5.16 bits
2.7% →
STILE 4.33 bits

Research on AULIC

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

Optimal play

Opening with AULIC, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,816 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,250 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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
AULIC 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).