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

FRORN

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Frozen; intensely cold; frosty.

Alternative forms: frorne

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

Etymology

From Middle English froren, from Old English froren, ġefroren (“frozen”), from Proto-West Germanic *froʀan, from Proto-Germanic *fruzanaz (“frozen”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *freusaną (“to freeze”). Doublet of frore and frozen.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use FRORN in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 87.8% 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 FRORN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FRORN 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 70.3% of games, misses completely in 29.7%, and leaves about 291 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,254 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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 FRORN 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.

4.12 Entropy (bits)
291 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FRORN 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#8,254 Rank among openers
Opening with FRORN left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,254 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
842
4 guesses
1,223
5 guesses
236
6 guesses
16

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
32%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

FRORN can come back 75 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

707 answers
232 answers
225 answers
178 answers
132 answers
109 answers
84 answers
71 answers
63 answers
48 answers
48 answers
41 answers
30 answers
30 answers
29 answers
24 answers
24 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4R1O1R1N1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing FRORN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FRORN:

30% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
9% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.7% →
SLATE 6.42 bits
9.7% →
LIANE 5.25 bits
9.4% →
SALET 5.34 bits
7.5% →
SALET 4.99 bits
5.5% →
CASTE 5.19 bits
4.6% →
SLATE 4.81 bits
3.5% →
TASER 4.45 bits
3.0% →
STADE 4.81 bits
2.6% →
BOITE 4.27 bits
2.0% →
SAMEL 4.39 bits

Research on FRORN

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

Optimal play

Opening with FRORN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,305 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.93 guesses at best and is rank #4,819 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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).