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

FARER

FARER 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.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfɛəɹə(ɹ)//ˈfɛɹɚ/

Noun

One who fares or travels, a traveller, tripper

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 FARER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FARER 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 81.1% of games, misses completely in 18.9%, and leaves about 180 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,900 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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.
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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__E_ F in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position FA_ER F in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FARER 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.

4.59 Entropy (bits)
180 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 58% of evaluated openers
1.35 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FARER 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#10,900 Rank among openers
Opening with FARER left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,900 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
723
4 guesses
1,240
5 guesses
305
6 guesses
17
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
36%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

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

448 answers
277 answers
199 answers
153 answers
140 answers
134 answers
100 answers
95 answers
88 answers
76 answers
67 answers
44 answers
41 answers
35 answers
33 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4A1R1E1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SOILY SEINE SLANT SLATE SONLY PRINT

Strategy after playing FARER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FARER:

19% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
12% chance
Suggested:
SEINE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.9% →
SOILY 5.71 bits
11.7% →
SEINE 5.41 bits
8.4% →
SLANT 5.37 bits
6.4% →
SLATE 4.96 bits
5.9% →
SONLY 4.59 bits
5.6% →
PRINT 4.85 bits
4.2% →
SONLY 4.10 bits
4.0% →
TROPE 4.40 bits
3.7% →
GRANT 4.04 bits
3.2% →
SOILY 3.47 bits

Research on FARER

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

Optimal play

Opening with FARER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,370 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 FARER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78; proven optimal play reaches 3.77. 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 FEHRUR. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

Synonyms RIGHT long further cold removed remote

Opposites near left SHORT moderate

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FARER 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).