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FREER

FREER is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfɹiːəɹ/

Noun

One who frees.

Adjective

Comparative form of free: more free.

Alternative forms: free-er, freeër, freeer

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

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it FREEUR.

Related meanings

Synonyms release liberal rid LOOSE innocent SPARE

Opposites BOUND obstruct paid FIXED

In a sentence

I feel freer than ever.
© tatoeba.org contributor Herobane (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I feel freer than ever before.
© tatoeba.org contributor Micsmithel (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use FREER in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 85.2% 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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 FREER performs as a guess

FREER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 66.9% of games, misses completely in 33.1%, and leaves about 353 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,599 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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 FREER 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.

3.90 Entropy (bits)
353 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FREER 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,599 Rank among openers
Opening with FREER left 1 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 3.83 average. It ranks #12,599 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
710
4 guesses
1,231
5 guesses
357
6 guesses
15

Composition

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
35%
All gray
33%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E D
P E N C E
F R E E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FREER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

FREER can come back 73 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

790 answers
348 answers
190 answers
130 answers
95 answers
93 answers
87 answers
62 answers
57 answers
53 answers
39 answers
37 answers
34 answers
26 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4R1E1E1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing FREER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FREER:

33% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
15% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
8% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.1% →
SAINT 5.96 bits
14.6% →
SLANT 5.38 bits
8.0% →
ROAST 5.12 bits
5.5% →
SAINT 4.52 bits
4.0% →
REAST 4.52 bits
3.9% →
ALIEN 4.38 bits
3.6% →
COAST 3.48 bits
2.6% →
SLANT 4.88 bits
2.4% →
COATE 3.74 bits
2.2% →
SLANT 4.55 bits

Research on FREER

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

Optimal play

Opening with FREER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #13,016 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 FREER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FREER sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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).