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

AUTOS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of auto

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of auto

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 AUTOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AUTOS 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 87.1% of games, misses completely in 12.9%, and leaves about 135 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,593 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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___S A in the 1st position and S in the 5th position A__O_ A in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe AUTOS 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.

4.99 Entropy (bits)
135 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.96 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AUTOS 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#4,593 Rank among openers
Opening with AUTOS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,593 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
943
4 guesses
1,115
5 guesses
214
6 guesses
24
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
3 vowels
Common:
AOSTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
24%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

AUTOS can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

314 answers
307 answers
207 answers
110 answers
109 answers
105 answers
88 answers
88 answers
62 answers
59 answers
59 answers
56 answers
54 answers
53 answers
43 answers
41 answers
35 answers
35 answers
33 answers
32 answers
32 answers
25 answers
25 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1U1T1O1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

CARLE LINER DROLE PARLE TRITE PLIER

Strategy after playing AUTOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AUTOS:

13% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
13% chance
Suggested:
LINER
9% chance
Suggested:
DROLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.2% →
CARLE 5.53 bits
12.9% →
LINER 5.85 bits
8.7% →
DROLE 5.21 bits
4.6% →
PARLE 4.84 bits
4.6% →
TRITE 5.06 bits
4.4% →
PLIER 5.26 bits
3.7% →
PRICE 4.17 bits
3.7% →
TRACE 4.80 bits
2.6% →
CRINE 4.86 bits
2.5% →
SCORE 4.40 bits

Research on AUTOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with AUTOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,748 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 AUTOS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it AWTOHZ.

Related meanings

Synonyms car machine automobile

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AUTOS sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.3 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).