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

AULOI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of aulos

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

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

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How AULOI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AULOI 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 93.2% of games, misses completely in 6.8%, and leaves about 146 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,301 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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 AULOI 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.

4.80 Entropy (bits)
146 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 72% of evaluated openers
1.14 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AULOI 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#8,301 Rank among openers
Opening with AULOI left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,301 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
880
4 guesses
1,135
5 guesses
265
6 guesses
28
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
4 vowels
Common:
AILOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
93%
Green tile
22%
All gray
7%

Feedback distribution

AULOI can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

344 answers
276 answers
228 answers
161 answers
142 answers
87 answers
87 answers
82 answers
67 answers
60 answers
59 answers
56 answers
53 answers
45 answers
43 answers
39 answers
37 answers
32 answers
27 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1U1L1O1I1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing AULOI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AULOI:

14% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
12% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.5%
TRACE 5.66 bits
11.6%
TRINE 5.39 bits
9.6%
TRONE 5.28 bits
6.8%
TERSE 5.69 bits
6.0%
CARSE 4.68 bits
3.7%
CRUET 5.02 bits
3.7%
MARSE 3.99 bits
3.5%
SINCE 4.06 bits
2.8%
TRAIN 4.77 bits
2.5%
SETER 4.43 bits

Research on AULOI

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

Optimal play

Opening with AULOI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,052 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.89 guesses at best and is rank #3,879 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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.

How it sounds

Three syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it OHLOHEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.