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

AYINS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of ayin

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

Use AYINS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% 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 AYINS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AYINS 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 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 146 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,032 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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 AYINS 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.

4.85 Entropy (bits)
146 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AYINS 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,032 Rank among openers
Opening with AYINS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #4,032 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
931
4 guesses
1,151
5 guesses
195
6 guesses
18

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AINS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
24%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

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

355 answers
302 answers
166 answers
134 answers
133 answers
125 answers
98 answers
88 answers
74 answers
66 answers
65 answers
62 answers
52 answers
48 answers
40 answers
39 answers
35 answers
30 answers
30 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
21 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1Y4I1N1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing AYINS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AYINS:

15% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
13% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
7% chance
Suggested:
PORTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.9% →
ROUET 6.00 bits
12.7% →
CARLE 5.64 bits
7.0% →
PORTE 5.44 bits
5.6% →
THALE 5.01 bits
5.6% →
TILDE 5.21 bits
5.2% →
DROLE 5.11 bits
4.1% →
CRUET 5.02 bits
3.7% →
ROULE 4.81 bits
3.1% →
TARDY 4.24 bits
2.8% →
TINGE 4.38 bits

Research on AYINS

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

Optimal play

Opening with AYINS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,400 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,719 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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).