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

LURRY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To lug or pull about.

Noun

Alternative form of lorry (“type of cart”).

Verb

To daub; dirty.

Noun

A confused heap; a throng or jumble, as of people or sounds.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

Of obscure origin. See lorry.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use LURRY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.0% 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 LURRY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LURRY 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 76.3% of games, misses completely in 23.7%, and leaves about 261 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,778 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe LURRY 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.

4.10 Entropy (bits)
261 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LURRY 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#11,778 Rank among openers
Opening with LURRY left 3 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 3.80 average. It ranks #11,778 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
743
4 guesses
1,228
5 guesses
302
6 guesses
34

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
33%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

LURRY can come back 79 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

566 answers
342 answers
328 answers
163 answers
122 answers
82 answers
80 answers
67 answers
56 answers
55 answers
54 answers
47 answers
42 answers
38 answers
24 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1U1R1R1Y4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing LURRY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LURRY:

24% chance
Suggested:
SAINE
14% chance
Suggested:
NAICE
14% chance
Suggested:
STOAE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.7% →
SAINE 6.25 bits
14.3% →
NAICE 5.23 bits
13.8% →
STOAE 5.43 bits
6.8% →
SATED 4.85 bits
5.1% →
STONE 5.31 bits
3.4% →
SHOTE 5.01 bits
3.4% →
SCOTE 4.91 bits
2.8% →
CASTE 4.62 bits
2.3% →
FLUKE 3.85 bits
2.3% →
MAISE 4.02 bits

Research on LURRY

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

Optimal play

Opening with LURRY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,631 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.98 guesses at best and is rank #5,842 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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).