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

OUTRO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈaʊt.ɹoʊ//ˈaʊ.tɹəʊ/

Noun

A portion of music at the end of a song.

Noun

The closing sequence at the end of a film, television program, video game, etc.

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 OUTRO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OUTRO 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 76.7% of games, misses completely in 23.3%, and leaves about 227 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,593 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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 OUTRO 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.

4.31 Entropy (bits)
227 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 39% of evaluated openers
1.63 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OUTRO 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#9,593 Rank among openers
Opening with OUTRO 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 3.75 average. It ranks #9,593 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
803
4 guesses
1,198
5 guesses
271
6 guesses
27
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ORTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
21%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

OUTRO can come back 80 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

553 answers
297 answers
225 answers
189 answers
118 answers
98 answers
86 answers
81 answers
63 answers
61 answers
48 answers
43 answers
39 answers
36 answers
36 answers
31 answers
26 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
15 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1U1T1R1O1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing OUTRO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OUTRO:

23% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
13% chance
Suggested:
SAICE
9% chance
Suggested:
LEAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.3%
SLANE 6.24 bits
12.5%
SAICE 5.31 bits
9.5%
LEAST 5.62 bits
8.0%
SLANE 5.25 bits
5.0%
CARNE 4.45 bits
4.1%
SMILE 4.41 bits
3.6%
SLANE 5.01 bits
3.4%
TRAIT 4.78 bits
2.7%
CHASE 4.56 bits
2.6%
SLANE 4.38 bits

Research on OUTRO

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

Optimal play

Opening with OUTRO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,305 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.94 guesses at best and is rank #5,076 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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 OWTROH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, OUTRO is a kind of passage.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
OUTRO 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).