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

INURN

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To place (the remains of a person who has died) in an urn or other container.

Verb

To hold or contain (the remains of a person who has died).

Alternative forms: enurn

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

Use INURN in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.2% 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 INURN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts INURN 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 75.5% of games, misses completely in 24.5%, and leaves about 258 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,409 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe INURN 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.

4.08 Entropy (bits)
258 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How INURN 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,409 Rank among openers
Opening with INURN left 5 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 3.77 average. It ranks #10,409 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
785
4 guesses
1,227
5 guesses
268
6 guesses
29

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
INRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
22%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

INURN can come back 71 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

584 answers
352 answers
259 answers
133 answers
116 answers
110 answers
90 answers
89 answers
84 answers
72 answers
50 answers
40 answers
34 answers
34 answers
29 answers
28 answers
26 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1N1U1R1N1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing INURN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing INURN:

24% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
15% chance
Suggested:
POTAE
11% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.5% →
SLATE 6.45 bits
14.8% →
POTAE 5.31 bits
10.9% →
SALET 5.37 bits
5.6% →
PRATE 4.64 bits
4.9% →
SADLY 4.49 bits
4.6% →
CLOTE 5.14 bits
3.8% →
THALE 4.84 bits
3.7% →
STAGE 4.32 bits
3.5% →
CLOSE 4.86 bits
3.0% →
SURER 4.67 bits

Research on INURN

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

Optimal play

Opening with INURN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,401 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 INURN can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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).