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

INFRA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.fɹə/

Adverb

Discussed later.

Noun

Clipping of infrastructure.

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 INFRA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts INFRA 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 84.9% of games, misses completely in 15.1%, and leaves about 174 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,018 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 INFRA 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.

4.55 Entropy (bits)
174 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How INFRA 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,018 Rank among openers
Opening with INFRA left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,018 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
872
4 guesses
1,185
5 guesses
223
6 guesses
14
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:
AINR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
14%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

INFRA can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

359 answers
325 answers
236 answers
205 answers
164 answers
114 answers
95 answers
90 answers
89 answers
51 answers
45 answers
45 answers
41 answers
33 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1N1F4R1A1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing INFRA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing INFRA:

15% chance
Suggested:
STOLE
14% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOUSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.1%
STOLE 6.00 bits
13.7%
SLATE 5.81 bits
9.9%
TOUSE 5.48 bits
8.6%
SIDLE 5.28 bits
6.9%
CASTE 4.72 bits
4.8%
TOUSE 4.96 bits
4.0%
SALET 4.58 bits
3.8%
TONEY 4.52 bits
3.7%
SPITE 4.33 bits
2.1%
SALET 4.26 bits

Research on INFRA

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

Optimal play

Opening with INFRA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,427 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,161 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, 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 IHNFRUH.

Related meanings

Synonyms BELOW

Opposites SUPRA

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
INFRA sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than 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).