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LEMUR

Yes, LEMUR was the Wordle answer on December 31, 2024 (Wordle #1291).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈliːmə(ɹ)/

Noun

Any strepsirrhine primate of the superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.

Noun

Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: December 31, 2024 (#1291).

See the full page for that puzzle: December 31, 2024 (#1291).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How LEMUR performs as a guess

LEMUR is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 86.2% of games, misses completely in 13.8%, and leaves about 138 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,142 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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__U_ L in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _E__R E in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LEMUR 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.

4.91 Entropy (bits)
138 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 78% of evaluated openers
1.04 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LEMUR 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,142 Rank among openers
Opening with LEMUR left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,142 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
915
4 guesses
1,156
5 guesses
200
6 guesses
17
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:
ELRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
25%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E D
C L E R K
L E M U R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches LEMUR in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

LEMUR can come back 102 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

327 answers
219 answers
215 answers
193 answers
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14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1E1M3U1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SAINT COAST TRADE SLATE HAUNT THANE

Strategy after playing LEMUR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LEMUR:

14% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
9% chance
Suggested:
COAST
9% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.8% →
SAINT 6.08 bits
9.2% →
COAST 5.52 bits
9.1% →
SAINT 5.61 bits
8.1% →
COAST 5.18 bits
6.3% →
TRADE 4.62 bits
5.5% →
SLATE 4.67 bits
4.9% →
HAUNT 4.86 bits
3.8% →
COAST 3.70 bits
3.4% →
THANE 4.43 bits
2.2% →
SAINT 4.75 bits

Research on LEMUR

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

Optimal play

Opening with LEMUR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,918 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 LEMUR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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 LEEMUR.

Rhymes with FEMUR

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LEMUR is a kind of primate.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LEMUR 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.

In a sentence

Madame Berthe's mouse lemur is the smallest primate in the world.
© tatoeba.org contributor Hybrid (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Archaeoindris fontoynontii was a gorilla-sized lemur.
© tatoeba.org contributor rul (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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).