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

FREIT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /fɹiːt/

Noun

A superstitious object or observance; a charm, an omen.

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 FREIT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FREIT 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 85.2% of games, misses completely in 14.8%, and leaves about 129 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,932 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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 FREIT 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.

5.17 Entropy (bits)
129 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FREIT 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#2,932 Rank among openers
Opening with FREIT left 3 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 3.64 average. It ranks #2,932 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
90
3 guesses
913
4 guesses
1,121
5 guesses
216
6 guesses
11
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:
EIRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
35%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

FREIT can come back 126 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

351 answers
260 answers
172 answers
131 answers
122 answers
103 answers
86 answers
75 answers
71 answers
59 answers
57 answers
51 answers
39 answers
37 answers
35 answers
33 answers
33 answers
31 answers
30 answers
29 answers
27 answers
26 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4R1E1I1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing FREIT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FREIT:

15% chance
Suggested:
SALON
11% chance
Suggested:
LEASE
7% chance
Suggested:
LEASE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.8%
SALON 5.77 bits
11.0%
LEASE 5.32 bits
7.2%
LEASE 4.64 bits
5.5%
COALY 5.08 bits
5.1%
SONLY 5.00 bits
4.3%
SOUTH 4.86 bits
3.6%
SLANE 4.53 bits
3.2%
TASTE 4.82 bits
3.0%
ARSON 3.89 bits
2.5%
CAVIL 4.50 bits

Research on FREIT

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

Optimal play

Opening with FREIT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #3,012 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best and is rank #1,196 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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

One syllable Say it FRYT. 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.