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

FLARY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈflɛəɹi/

Adjective

flaring

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use FLARY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How FLARY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FLARY 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 82.3% of games, misses completely in 17.7%, and leaves about 171 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,502 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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 FLARY 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.

4.74 Entropy (bits)
171 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FLARY 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#5,502 Rank among openers
Opening with FLARY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,502 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
881
4 guesses
1,169
5 guesses
231
6 guesses
9

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ALR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
40%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

FLARY can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

422 answers
318 answers
188 answers
142 answers
126 answers
116 answers
95 answers
95 answers
73 answers
57 answers
51 answers
48 answers
40 answers
37 answers
31 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4L1A1R1Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing FLARY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FLARY:

18% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
13% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
8% chance
Suggested:
CONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.7% →
TOISE 6.21 bits
13.3% →
TOISE 5.54 bits
7.9% →
CONTE 5.32 bits
6.0% →
TOISE 5.15 bits
5.3% →
STOPE 4.76 bits
4.9% →
CATER 4.59 bits
4.0% →
SHITE 4.93 bits
4.0% →
CASTE 4.46 bits
3.1% →
SOUCE 4.74 bits
2.4% →
SPICE 3.76 bits

Research on FLARY

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

Optimal play

Opening with FLARY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,108 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 FLARY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).