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

AUREI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of aureus

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 AUREI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AUREI 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 95.1% of games, misses completely in 4.9%, and leaves about 90 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,472 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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 AUREI 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.

5.32 Entropy (bits)
90 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 95% of evaluated openers
0.63 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AUREI 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#7,472 Rank among openers
Opening with AUREI 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 3.71 average. It ranks #7,472 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
855
4 guesses
1,150
5 guesses
262
6 guesses
20
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:
AEIRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
95%
Green tile
32%
All gray
5%

Feedback distribution

AUREI can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

213 answers
193 answers
147 answers
146 answers
117 answers
94 answers
89 answers
86 answers
73 answers
70 answers
70 answers
69 answers
64 answers
57 answers
57 answers
56 answers
42 answers
37 answers
33 answers
33 answers
31 answers
30 answers
29 answers
29 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers
21 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1U1R1E1I1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing AUREI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AUREI:

9% chance
Suggested:
SONLY
8% chance
Suggested:
SONLY
6% chance
Suggested:
SENTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.0%
SONLY 5.21 bits
8.1%
SONLY 4.97 bits
6.2%
SENTE 5.17 bits
6.1%
SLATE 5.08 bits
4.9%
STOOL 4.80 bits
4.0%
SENTE 4.61 bits
3.7%
COAST 4.30 bits
3.6%
SHUNT 4.61 bits
3.1%
SONLY 3.42 bits
2.9%
TWEEN 4.27 bits

Research on AUREI

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

Optimal play

Opening with AUREI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #5,066 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 AUREI can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71; proven optimal play reaches 3.70. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it AWREE. 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.