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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

AVAIL

Yes, AVAIL was the Wordle answer on February 18, 2023 (Wordle #609).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈveɪl/

Verb

To turn to the advantage of.

“I availed myself of the opportunity.”

Verb

To be of service to.

“Artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.”

Noun

Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions).

“I tried fixing it to no avail.”

Noun

Proceeds; profits from business transactions.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: February 18, 2023 (#609).

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

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How AVAIL performs as a guess

AVAIL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 72.9% of games, misses completely in 27.1%, and leaves about 275 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,353 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

A___L A in the 1st position and L in the 5th position A__I_ A in the 1st position and I in the 4th position

Try next

TORSE TRINE CATER SOUCE TRUCE STILE
Words starting with A Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.09 Entropy (bits)
275 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 27% of evaluated openers
1.86 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How AVAIL 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#11,353 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, AVAIL ranks #11,353 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
748
4 guesses
1,221
5 guesses
310
6 guesses
24
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
29%
All gray
27%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
A V A I L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches AVAIL in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

79 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

638
299
246
184
162
80
71
66
64
49
40
38
35
27
23
23
19
18
18
18
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12
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9
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8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AVAIL:

27% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
13% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
10% chance
Suggested:
CATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.1% →
TORSE 6.22 bits
12.7% →
TRINE 5.43 bits
10.4% →
CATER 5.29 bits
7.8% →
SOUCE 5.20 bits
6.9% →
TRUCE 5.17 bits
3.4% →
STILE 4.43 bits
3.0% →
TALER 4.57 bits
2.8% →
SCOTE 4.10 bits
2.7% →
TRUCE 4.79 bits
2.1% →
DRONE 4.96 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1V4A1I1L1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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