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

LEARE

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

No dictionary definition for LEARE is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use LEARE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.4% 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 LEARE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LEARE 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 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 109 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,591 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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 LEARE 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.

5.33 Entropy (bits)
109 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LEARE 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#5,591 Rank among openers
Opening with LEARE left 4 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 3.68 average. It ranks #5,591 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
876
4 guesses
1,143
5 guesses
236
6 guesses
19

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AELR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
40%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

LEARE can come back 113 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

340 answers
167 answers
157 answers
143 answers
101 answers
89 answers
88 answers
79 answers
77 answers
59 answers
58 answers
48 answers
47 answers
47 answers
43 answers
41 answers
41 answers
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37 answers
36 answers
31 answers
29 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
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20 answers
19 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1E1A1R1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing LEARE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LEARE:

14% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
7% chance
Suggested:
SATIN
7% chance
Suggested:
GROUT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.3% →
HOIST 5.83 bits
7.0% →
SATIN 5.00 bits
6.6% →
GROUT 4.98 bits
6.0% →
SOULY 4.60 bits
4.2% →
TOISE 3.74 bits
3.7% →
NOISE 4.45 bits
3.7% →
ATOLL 4.42 bits
3.3% →
ONSET 4.83 bits
3.2% →
MAYOR 4.16 bits
2.5% →
SHANK 4.46 bits

Research on LEARE

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

Optimal play

Opening with LEARE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #3,123 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 LEARE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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).