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

CYMAR

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /saɪˈmɑː(ɹ)/

Noun

A scarf.

Noun

A loose light dress for women.

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How CYMAR performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CYMAR 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 80.8% of games, misses completely in 19.2%, and leaves about 180 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,580 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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 CYMAR 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.

4.67 Entropy (bits)
180 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 63% of evaluated openers
1.27 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CYMAR 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#4,580 Rank among openers
Opening with CYMAR 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 3.66 average. It ranks #4,580 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
928
4 guesses
1,124
5 guesses
223
6 guesses
16
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
25%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

CYMAR can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

455 answers
273 answers
240 answers
156 answers
118 answers
102 answers
99 answers
67 answers
61 answers
59 answers
53 answers
46 answers
45 answers
43 answers
40 answers
32 answers
31 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3Y4M3A1R1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing CYMAR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CYMAR:

19% chance
Suggested:
STILE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.2%
STILE 6.23 bits
11.5%
SLATE 5.69 bits
10.1%
TOISE 5.74 bits
6.6%
STOLE 4.65 bits
5.0%
TRADE 4.51 bits
4.3%
TOISE 3.88 bits
4.2%
TOILE 5.11 bits
2.8%
SLANT 4.29 bits
2.6%
SIENT 4.63 bits
2.5%
TOILE 5.25 bits

Research on CYMAR

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

Optimal play

Opening with CYMAR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,629 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 CYMAR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it SYMAHR. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.