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

GEBUR

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

In Anglo-Saxon law, the owner of an allotment or yard-land, usually consisting of 30 acres; a villein.

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 GEBUR performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GEBUR 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 79.7% of games, misses completely in 20.3%, and leaves about 201 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,541 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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 GEBUR 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.

4.58 Entropy (bits)
201 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 57% of evaluated openers
1.36 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GEBUR 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#6,541 Rank among openers
Opening with GEBUR solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,541 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
844
4 guesses
1,203
5 guesses
221
6 guesses
19
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:
ERU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
27%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

GEBUR can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

482 answers
334 answers
224 answers
150 answers
128 answers
102 answers
102 answers
60 answers
56 answers
51 answers
50 answers
40 answers
36 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
22 answers
21 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2E1B3U1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing GEBUR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GEBUR:

20% chance
Suggested:
COAST
14% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
9% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.3%
COAST 5.84 bits
14.1%
SLANT 5.76 bits
9.4%
COAST 5.51 bits
6.3%
SLANT 4.95 bits
5.4%
COAST 4.92 bits
4.3%
COAST 3.63 bits
4.3%
SALTY 4.71 bits
2.5%
SLANT 4.61 bits
2.4%
RAINY 3.85 bits
2.1%
SLATE 4.48 bits

Research on GEBUR

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

Optimal play

Opening with GEBUR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,520 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 GEBUR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, 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.

How it sounds

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