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NARRA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Any of the pantropical genus Pterocarpus of trees in the family Fabaceae, but especially Pterocarpus indicus.

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 NARRA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NARRA 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 73.0% of games, misses completely in 27.0%, and leaves about 280 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,835 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

N___A N in the 1st position and A in the 5th position N__R_ N in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe NARRA 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.

3.95 Entropy (bits)
280 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.00 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NARRA 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,835 Rank among openers
Opening with NARRA 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 3.81 average. It ranks #11,835 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
732
4 guesses
1,247
5 guesses
301
6 guesses
29
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
27%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

NARRA can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

640 answers
260 answers
252 answers
250 answers
135 answers
108 answers
85 answers
83 answers
60 answers
54 answers
52 answers
46 answers
41 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
15 answers
14 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1A1R1R1A1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

TOILE SLATE BLITE TRACE SUITE SLICE

Strategy after playing NARRA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NARRA:

27% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.0% →
TOILE 6.09 bits
11.0% →
TOILE 5.07 bits
10.6% →
TOILE 5.39 bits
10.5% →
SLATE 5.74 bits
5.7% →
BLITE 4.70 bits
4.5% →
TRACE 4.64 bits
3.6% →
SUITE 5.00 bits
3.5% →
SLICE 4.69 bits
2.5% →
GOIER 4.56 bits
2.3% →
STILE 4.66 bits

Research on NARRA

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

Optimal play

Opening with NARRA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #13,098 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.02 guesses at best and is rank #6,488 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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 NAHRUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
NARRA 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.

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).