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FLORA

Yes, FLORA was the Wordle answer on April 3, 2023 (Wordle #653).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈflɔː.ɹə/

Noun

Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.

Noun

A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc.

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: April 3, 2023 (#653).

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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 FLORA performs as a guess

FLORA 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 86.1% of games, misses completely in 13.9%, and leaves about 143 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,670 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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.

F___A F in the 1st position and A in the 5th position F__R_ F in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _L__A L in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FLORA 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.

4.88 Entropy (bits)
143 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 77% of evaluated openers
1.07 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FLORA 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,670 Rank among openers
Opening with FLORA 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 3.65 average. It ranks #3,670 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
905
4 guesses
1,167
5 guesses
196
6 guesses
13
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:
ALOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
28%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
A R M O R
C A R G O
F L O R A

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FLORA in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

FLORA can come back 109 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

329 answers
263 answers
222 answers
154 answers
145 answers
130 answers
124 answers
82 answers
82 answers
53 answers
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15 answers
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11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4L1O1R1A1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SIENT STANE SEINE CASTE CONTE TULLE

Strategy after playing FLORA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FLORA:

14% chance
Suggested:
SIENT
11% chance
Suggested:
STANE
9% chance
Suggested:
SEINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.9% →
SIENT 6.18 bits
11.1% →
STANE 5.45 bits
9.4% →
SEINE 5.23 bits
6.5% →
CASTE 4.79 bits
6.1% →
CONTE 5.09 bits
5.5% →
TULLE 5.07 bits
5.2% →
SALLE 4.83 bits
3.5% →
ROWER 4.32 bits
3.5% →
SHITE 4.57 bits
2.2% →
SPICE 4.32 bits

Research on FLORA

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

Optimal play

Opening with FLORA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,773 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 FLORA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 FLAWRUH.

Rhymes with LAURA TORAH MORRA

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FLORA is a kind of collection or being.

Synonyms PLANT vegetation botany

Opposites FAUNA

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FLORA sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 5 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

In a sentence

Australia has a diverse flora and fauna.
© tatoeba.org contributor Hybrid (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The park is home to diverse flora and fauna.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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).