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

AURAR

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of eyrir

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

Use AURAR in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 88.0% 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 AURAR performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AURAR 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 72.7% of games, misses completely in 27.3%, and leaves about 287 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,253 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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 AURAR 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.

3.99 Entropy (bits)
287 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AURAR 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,253 Rank among openers
Opening with AURAR 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 3.86 average. It ranks #13,253 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
690
4 guesses
1,237
5 guesses
360
6 guesses
29

Composition

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ARU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
32%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

AURAR can come back 69 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

652 answers
352 answers
219 answers
143 answers
135 answers
123 answers
90 answers
71 answers
69 answers
68 answers
55 answers
42 answers
32 answers
26 answers
22 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1U1R1A1R1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing AURAR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AURAR:

27% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
15% chance
Suggested:
CASTE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.3% →
TOILE 6.08 bits
14.8% →
CASTE 5.26 bits
9.2% →
TRINE 5.28 bits
6.0% →
STONE 5.22 bits
5.7% →
DRICE 4.41 bits
5.2% →
STIME 4.25 bits
3.8% →
SONLY 3.73 bits
3.0% →
CLEAT 4.54 bits
2.9% →
SHOTE 4.79 bits
2.9% →
CLONE 4.89 bits

Research on AURAR

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

Optimal play

Opening with AURAR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.88 guesses and ranks #13,489 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 AURAR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.86, at or below the proven-optimal 3.88, 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).