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

LAMER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

comparative form of lame: more lame

Noun

A person lacking in maturity, social skills, technical competence or intelligence.

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 LAMER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LAMER 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 88.3% of games, misses completely in 11.7%, and leaves about 101 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,442 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___R L in the 1st position and R in the 5th position L__E_ L in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position LA_ER L in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LAMER 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.

5.32 Entropy (bits)
101 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 95% of evaluated openers
0.62 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LAMER 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#2,442 Rank among openers
Opening with LAMER left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,442 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
947
4 guesses
1,114
5 guesses
201
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:
AELR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
31%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

LAMER can come back 117 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

278 answers
184 answers
152 answers
126 answers
123 answers
92 answers
91 answers
89 answers
89 answers
83 answers
83 answers
78 answers
58 answers
54 answers
46 answers
40 answers
34 answers
32 answers
31 answers
31 answers
26 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1A1M3E1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SNOUT SEINE COURT SOULY TOISE SLANT

Strategy after playing LAMER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LAMER:

12% chance
Suggested:
SNOUT
8% chance
Suggested:
SEINE
6% chance
Suggested:
COURT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.7% →
SNOUT 5.78 bits
7.8% →
SEINE 5.62 bits
6.4% →
COURT 5.18 bits
5.3% →
SOULY 4.54 bits
5.2% →
TOISE 4.55 bits
3.9% →
SLANT 4.21 bits
3.8% →
NASTY 4.15 bits
3.7% →
SCANT 5.16 bits
3.7% →
GRANT 4.15 bits
3.5% →
TOISE 3.35 bits

Research on LAMER

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

Optimal play

Opening with LAMER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #757 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 LAMER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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 LAYMUR.

Rhymes with GAMER TAMER NAMER

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LAMER is a kind of simple or material.

Synonyms game square halt crippled cripple feeble

Opposites strong fit

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LAMER 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).