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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier for first-turn info

DEMUR

Yes, DEMUR was the Wordle answer on July 1, 2026 (Wordle #1838).

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /dɪˈmɜː//dɪˈmɜɹ/

Verb

Chiefly followed by to, and sometimes by at or on: to object or be reluctant; to balk, to take exception.

“I demur to that statement.”

Verb

To submit a demurrer (“motion by a party to a legal action for the immediate or summary judgment of the court on the question of whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defence, and hence whether the party bringing the motion is required to answer or proceed further”).

Noun

An act of objecting or taking exception; a scruple; also, an exception taken or objection to something.

Noun

An act of continuing; a continuance.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: July 1, 2026 (#1838).

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

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How DEMUR performs as a guess

DEMUR 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 80.5% of games, misses completely in 19.5%, and leaves about 181 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,845 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

D___R D in the 1st position and R in the 5th position D__U_ D in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _E__R E in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in DEMUR.

First-turn measures

All four describe DEMUR 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.

4.72 Entropy (bits)
181 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 67% of evaluated openers
1.22 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DEMUR 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#2,845 Rank among openers
Opening with DEMUR left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,845 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
932
4 guesses
1,185
5 guesses
160
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
2 vowels
Common:
ERU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
26%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E D
D E C R Y
D E M U R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DEMUR in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

DEMUR can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

464 answers
300 answers
206 answers
141 answers
127 answers
97 answers
94 answers
65 answers
54 answers
52 answers
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45 answers
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33 answers
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30 answers
23 answers
22 answers
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21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1M3U1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SLANT COAST THALE SIGMA COALY SLATY

Strategy after playing DEMUR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DEMUR:

20% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
13% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
9% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.5% →
SLANT 6.05 bits
12.6% →
SLANT 5.88 bits
8.7% →
COAST 5.59 bits
5.9% →
SLANT 5.13 bits
5.3% →
COAST 4.95 bits
4.1% →
COAST 3.66 bits
4.0% →
THALE 4.65 bits
2.7% →
SIGMA 4.71 bits
2.3% →
COALY 4.56 bits
2.2% →
SLATY 4.02 bits

Research on DEMUR

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

Optimal play

Opening with DEMUR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #3,073 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 DEMUR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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 second syllable Say it DIHMUR.

Rhymes with OCCUR REFER INTER DETER INCUR

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, DEMUR is a kind of objection or object.

Synonyms except

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
DEMUR sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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).