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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

GENRE

Yes, GENRE was the Wordle answer on December 2, 2023 (Wordle #896).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə//ˈ(d)ʒɒnɹə//ˈd͡ʒɑnɚ/

Noun

A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.

“The still life has been a popular genre in painting since the 17th century.”

Verb

To assign or conform to a genre, to make genre-specific.

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: December 2, 2023 (#896).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How GENRE performs as a guess

GENRE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 76.9% of games, misses completely in 23.1%, and leaves about 195 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,273 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

G___E G in the 1st position and E in the 5th position G__R_ G in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SAULT COAST SOLAR SAINT SALET SHALT
Words starting with G Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.72 Entropy (bits)
195 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 67% of evaluated openers
1.22 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GENRE 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#5,273 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GENRE ranks #5,273 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
885
4 guesses
1,178
5 guesses
208
6 guesses
18
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
39%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P R I S M
G E N R E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GENRE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

100 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

544
233
157
139
134
116
75
71
64
56
52
42
38
38
35
34
32
24
21
20
18
17
17
16
16
15
13
13
13
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GENRE:

23% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
10% chance
Suggested:
COAST
7% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.1% →
SAULT 5.91 bits
9.9% →
COAST 5.44 bits
6.7% →
SAULT 5.51 bits
5.9% →
SOLAR 4.02 bits
5.7% →
SAINT 5.33 bits
4.9% →
SALET 5.11 bits
3.2% →
COAST 4.69 bits
3.0% →
SHALT 4.66 bits
2.7% →
SAUCY 4.39 bits
2.4% →
COAST 4.19 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2E1N1R1E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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