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

AVINE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈeɪvaɪn/

Adjective

Characteristic of or pertaining to birds, or to bird-like or flying creatures.

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

Etymology

From Latin avis (“bird”) + -ine.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use AVINE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% 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 AVINE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AVINE 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 86.5% of games, misses completely in 13.5%, and leaves about 137 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,389 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 AVINE 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.

4.94 Entropy (bits)
137 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AVINE 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#7,389 Rank among openers
Opening with AVINE left 3 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 3.71 average. It ranks #7,389 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
806
4 guesses
1,209
5 guesses
241
6 guesses
18

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
35%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

AVINE can come back 102 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

322 answers
268 answers
238 answers
142 answers
118 answers
114 answers
93 answers
85 answers
57 answers
55 answers
54 answers
49 answers
47 answers
46 answers
45 answers
44 answers
42 answers
37 answers
37 answers
27 answers
26 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1V4I1N1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing AVINE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AVINE:

14% chance
Suggested:
SURLY
11% chance
Suggested:
SLART
10% chance
Suggested:
SETER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.5% →
SURLY 5.61 bits
11.2% →
SLART 5.21 bits
10.0% →
SETER 5.52 bits
6.0% →
METAL 4.64 bits
4.9% →
MIDST 4.62 bits
4.8% →
ROUSE 4.62 bits
3.9% →
SLART 4.53 bits
3.6% →
SLART 4.63 bits
2.4% →
SONAR 4.25 bits
2.3% →
SCORN 4.39 bits

Research on AVINE

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

Optimal play

Opening with AVINE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,955 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 AVINE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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).