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

LAHAR

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈlɑhɑɹ/

Noun

A volcanic mudflow.

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 LAHAR performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LAHAR 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 80.8% of games, misses completely in 19.2%, and leaves about 189 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,975 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

L___R L in the 1st position and R in the 5th position L__A_ L in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in LAHAR.

First-turn measures

All four describe LAHAR 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.

4.48 Entropy (bits)
189 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 50% of evaluated openers
1.47 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LAHAR 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#9,975 Rank among openers
Opening with LAHAR left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #9,975 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
803
4 guesses
1,196
5 guesses
279
6 guesses
28
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ALR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
29%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

LAHAR can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

456 answers
294 answers
230 answers
151 answers
124 answers
118 answers
106 answers
104 answers
97 answers
53 answers
43 answers
41 answers
39 answers
35 answers
34 answers
34 answers
33 answers
33 answers
27 answers
26 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1A1H4A1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

NOISE TOISE TOILE SUITE STONE SIENT

Strategy after playing LAHAR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LAHAR:

19% chance
Suggested:
NOISE
12% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.2% →
NOISE 6.04 bits
12.4% →
TOISE 5.50 bits
9.7% →
TOILE 5.12 bits
6.4% →
SUITE 5.36 bits
5.2% →
STONE 5.38 bits
5.0% →
SIENT 4.63 bits
4.5% →
TOISE 3.93 bits
4.4% →
TRACE 4.54 bits
4.1% →
PLANE 4.46 bits
2.2% →
TORSE 4.98 bits

Research on LAHAR

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

Optimal play

Opening with LAHAR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,686 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 LAHAR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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 LAHHUR. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LAHAR is a kind of avalanche.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LAHAR sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).