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

LAIRD

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /lɛːd//lɛəɹd//lerd/

Noun

An aristocrat, particularly in Scottish contexts and in reference to the chiefs of the Scottish clans.

Noun

A landowner, particularly in Scottish contexts.

Verb

Chiefly as laird it over: to behave like a laird, particularly to act haughtily or to domineer; to lord (it over).

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 LAIRD performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LAIRD 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 88.2% of games, misses completely in 11.8%, and leaves about 110 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #655 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

L___D L in the 1st position and D in the 5th position L__R_ L in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _A__D A in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LAIRD 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.

5.25 Entropy (bits)
110 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.69 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LAIRD 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#655 Rank among openers
Opening with LAIRD left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #655 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
1,027
4 guesses
1,066
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
12
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:
AILR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
36%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

LAIRD can come back 115 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

280 answers
236 answers
148 answers
147 answers
122 answers
115 answers
111 answers
95 answers
88 answers
59 answers
54 answers
53 answers
46 answers
43 answers
42 answers
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35 answers
30 answers
25 answers
22 answers
22 answers
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18 answers
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15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1A1I1R1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

SHOTE TOUSE SOCLE STANE CONTE SLOPE

Strategy after playing LAIRD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LAIRD:

12% chance
Suggested:
SHOTE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOUSE
6% chance
Suggested:
SOCLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.8% →
SHOTE 6.03 bits
9.9% →
TOUSE 5.57 bits
6.2% →
SOCLE 4.91 bits
6.2% →
STANE 5.39 bits
5.1% →
CONTE 5.21 bits
4.8% →
SLOPE 4.50 bits
4.7% →
CONTE 4.78 bits
4.0% →
SONCE 4.48 bits
3.7% →
STONE 5.18 bits
2.5% →
PORTE 3.98 bits

Research on LAIRD

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

Optimal play

Opening with LAIRD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.61 guesses and ranks #358 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 LAIRD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.61, 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

One syllable Say it LEHRD.

Rhymes with CARED AIRED DARED FARED ERRED

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LAIRD is a kind of landowner.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LAIRD sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

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).