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

FAQIR

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /fəˈkɪə(ɹ)/

Noun

Alternative spelling of fakir.

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 FAQIR performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FAQIR 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 79.3% of games, misses completely in 20.7%, and leaves about 226 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,412 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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.
See strategy patterns

Useful pattern pages

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

F___R F in the 1st position and R in the 5th position F__I_ F in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FAQIR 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.

4.17 Entropy (bits)
226 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 31% of evaluated openers
1.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FAQIR 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,412 Rank among openers
Opening with FAQIR left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.79 average. It ranks #11,412 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
742
4 guesses
1,238
5 guesses
308
6 guesses
19
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:
AIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
30%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

FAQIR can come back 74 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

491 answers
287 answers
256 answers
251 answers
175 answers
156 answers
84 answers
79 answers
63 answers
40 answers
39 answers
38 answers
32 answers
31 answers
26 answers
25 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4A1Q10I1R1
Total: 17 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Try next

STOLE SLATE SIENT SCOTE CLOTE TRACE

Strategy after playing FAQIR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FAQIR:

21% chance
Suggested:
STOLE
12% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
11% chance
Suggested:
SIENT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.7% →
STOLE 5.91 bits
12.1% →
SLATE 5.73 bits
10.8% →
SIENT 5.31 bits
10.6% →
SCOTE 5.41 bits
7.4% →
CLOTE 4.58 bits
6.6% →
TRACE 4.79 bits
3.5% →
TOUSE 3.88 bits
3.3% →
SPITE 4.36 bits
2.7% →
CONTE 4.89 bits
1.7% →
POREY 3.79 bits

Research on FAQIR

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

Optimal play

Opening with FAQIR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,533 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 FAQIR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, 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

One syllable Say it FAKS. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FAQIR is a kind of muslim.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FAQIR 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), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).