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

LIVRE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈliːvɹə//ˈliːvə(ɹ)/

Noun

A unit of currency formerly used in France, divided into 20 sols or sous.

Noun

A lira

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 LIVRE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LIVRE 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 131 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,953 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___E L in the 1st position and E in the 5th position L__R_ L in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _I__E I in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LIVRE 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.

4.97 Entropy (bits)
131 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 82% of evaluated openers
0.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LIVRE 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#5,953 Rank among openers
Opening with LIVRE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,953 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
80
3 guesses
848
4 guesses
1,172
5 guesses
235
6 guesses
16
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:
EILR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
35%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

LIVRE can come back 111 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

339 answers
192 answers
184 answers
163 answers
155 answers
131 answers
122 answers
91 answers
74 answers
67 answers
64 answers
63 answers
59 answers
53 answers
40 answers
34 answers
31 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1I1V4R1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SAUNT COAST OATER SEDAN SAINT BETEL

Strategy after playing LIVRE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LIVRE:

14% chance
Suggested:
SAUNT
8% chance
Suggested:
COAST
8% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.3% →
SAUNT 5.79 bits
8.1% →
COAST 5.29 bits
7.8% →
COAST 5.11 bits
6.9% →
OATER 4.17 bits
6.5% →
SEDAN 5.14 bits
5.5% →
SAINT 5.50 bits
5.1% →
SAUNT 5.12 bits
3.8% →
BETEL 4.34 bits
3.1% →
PITHY 3.90 bits
2.8% →
COAST 4.41 bits

Research on LIVRE

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

Optimal play

Opening with LIVRE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #5,066 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 LIVRE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 LIHVRUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LIVRE 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), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).