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

FEUAR

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfjuːə//ˈfjuəɹ/

Noun

One who holds a feu.

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 FEUAR performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FEUAR 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 88.4% of games, misses completely in 11.6%, and leaves about 124 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,055 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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 FEUAR 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.

5.07 Entropy (bits)
124 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 86% of evaluated openers
0.88 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FEUAR 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#7,055 Rank among openers
Opening with FEUAR left 2 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 3.70 average. It ranks #7,055 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
834
4 guesses
1,188
5 guesses
240
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
3 vowels
Common:
AERU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
34%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

FEUAR can come back 108 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

276 answers
252 answers
232 answers
136 answers
123 answers
117 answers
107 answers
96 answers
80 answers
70 answers
65 answers
47 answers
45 answers
45 answers
43 answers
33 answers
32 answers
31 answers
29 answers
26 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4E1U1A1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing FEUAR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FEUAR:

12% chance
Suggested:
SONLY
11% chance
Suggested:
SATIN
10% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.6%
SONLY 5.51 bits
10.6%
SATIN 5.23 bits
9.8%
TOILE 5.33 bits
5.7%
ALATE 4.54 bits
5.2%
PRINT 4.79 bits
4.9%
CHART 4.27 bits
4.5%
SONLY 4.49 bits
4.0%
TROPE 4.53 bits
3.4%
TOILE 4.23 bits
2.9%
SONLY 3.42 bits

Research on FEUAR

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

Optimal play

Opening with FEUAR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,660 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 FEUAR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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 FYOOUR. 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.