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

LARDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /lɑɹdz//lɑːdz/

Noun

plural of lard

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of lard

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 LARDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LARDS 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 87.6% of games, misses completely in 12.4%, and leaves about 118 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,855 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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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Useful pattern pages

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

L___S L in the 1st position and S in the 5th position L__D_ L in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LARDS 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.

5.05 Entropy (bits)
118 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 86% of evaluated openers
0.90 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LARDS 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#1,855 Rank among openers
Opening with LARDS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #1,855 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
947
4 guesses
1,168
5 guesses
161
6 guesses
9
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
1 vowels
Common:
ALRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
26%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

LARDS can come back 97 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

295 answers
223 answers
184 answers
161 answers
107 answers
103 answers
99 answers
97 answers
78 answers
77 answers
67 answers
63 answers
59 answers
54 answers
41 answers
34 answers
33 answers
33 answers
33 answers
32 answers
31 answers
31 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1A1R1D2S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

CONTE SIENT TOILE ALONE TONEY TRACE

Strategy after playing LARDS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LARDS:

12% chance
Suggested:
CONTE
9% chance
Suggested:
CONTE
8% chance
Suggested:
SIENT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.4% →
CONTE 6.06 bits
9.4% →
CONTE 5.30 bits
7.8% →
SIENT 5.51 bits
6.8% →
TOILE 5.05 bits
4.5% →
ALONE 4.54 bits
4.3% →
TONEY 4.77 bits
4.2% →
TRACE 4.93 bits
4.1% →
CONTE 5.30 bits
3.3% →
DENIM 4.86 bits
3.2% →
STAKE 4.60 bits

Research on LARDS

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

Optimal play

Opening with LARDS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,731 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 LARDS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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 LAHRDZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LARDS is a kind of fat or make.

Synonyms pad

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LARDS 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.3 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).