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

AZURN

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Obsolete form of azure.

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

Use AZURN in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% 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 AZURN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AZURN 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 81.3% of games, misses completely in 18.7%, and leaves about 204 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,001 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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 AZURN 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.

4.30 Entropy (bits)
204 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AZURN 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#10,001 Rank among openers
Opening with AZURN left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #10,001 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
808
4 guesses
1,212
5 guesses
274
6 guesses
22

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
23%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

AZURN can come back 66 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

446 answers
323 answers
274 answers
183 answers
152 answers
124 answers
83 answers
68 answers
64 answers
63 answers
54 answers
48 answers
46 answers
44 answers
41 answers
34 answers
28 answers
28 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1Z10U1R1N1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Strategy after playing AZURN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AZURN:

19% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
14% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
11% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.7% →
TOILE 6.10 bits
13.5% →
SLATE 5.66 bits
11.5% →
TOISE 5.29 bits
7.7% →
CASTE 4.71 bits
6.4% →
TOISE 5.32 bits
5.2% →
SLIME 4.67 bits
3.5% →
SALET 4.44 bits
2.9% →
SURER 4.61 bits
2.7% →
BLITE 4.74 bits
2.6% →
CLOSE 4.62 bits

Research on AZURN

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

Optimal play

Opening with AZURN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,694 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.94 guesses at best and is rank #5,019 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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).