AZURE
Yes, AZURE was the Wordle answer on September 29, 2023 (Wordle #832).
As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈæʒə//ˈæz.jʊə//ˈæʒjʊə/
- Noun
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The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
- Noun
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A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
- Adjective
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Sky blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky.
- Adjective
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Cloudless.
Alternative forms: az., b., bl.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: September 29, 2023 (#832).
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See what the public sample says →How AZURE performs as a guess
AZURE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 87.2% of games, misses completely in 12.8%, and leaves about 140 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,879 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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First-turn measures
All four describe AZURE 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How AZURE 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches AZURE in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
AZURE can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for AZURE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing AZURE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to AZURE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing AZURE:
Research on AZURE
Game-tree analysis and word research for AZURE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with AZURE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,523 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 AZURE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.81; proven optimal play reaches 3.80. 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 first syllable Say it AZHUR.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, AZURE is a kind of blue or color.
Synonyms sapphire
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- AZURE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
In a sentence
There are green rocks in the azure box.
The wheat fields are a golden yellow, and the sky an azure blue.
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).