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

SOLER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

One who fits the soles to shoes.

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.

Why this solver ranks SOLER highly

This solver ranks SOLER highly because it separates the possible answers well, even though it is not itself a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 90.7% of games, misses completely in 9.3%, and leaves about 80 possible answers on average.

In the current bounded six-turn policy, it ranks #91 of 182 evaluated openers; exact misses rank first, then average guesses among wins.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,276 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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.

S___R S in the 1st position and R in the 5th position S__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__R O in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SOLER 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.

5.60 Entropy (bits)
80 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.6% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.34 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SOLER 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#1,276 Rank among openers
Opening with SOLER solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,276 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
81
3 guesses
982
4 guesses
1,090
5 guesses
187
6 guesses
14
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:
ELORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
91%
Green tile
42%
All gray
9%

Feedback distribution

SOLER can come back 119 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

220 answers
169 answers
133 answers
131 answers
120 answers
101 answers
81 answers
80 answers
74 answers
67 answers
65 answers
53 answers
53 answers
40 answers
40 answers
37 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
33 answers
32 answers
30 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
23 answers
23 answers
20 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1O1L1E1R1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

PAINT DIANE TRAIN CRATE ALIGN PLATE

Strategy after playing SOLER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SOLER:

9% chance
Suggested:
PAINT
7% chance
Suggested:
DIANE
6% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.3% →
PAINT 5.61 bits
7.1% →
DIANE 5.26 bits
5.6% →
TRAIN 5.10 bits
5.5% →
CRATE 4.72 bits
5.1% →
ALIGN 4.75 bits
4.3% →
PLATE 4.59 bits
3.4% →
STANK 4.62 bits
3.4% →
MONTH 4.21 bits
3.1% →
SAINT 3.24 bits
2.8% →
ACORN 4.22 bits

Research on SOLER

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

Optimal play

Opening with SOLER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #165 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 SOLER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61; proven optimal play reaches 3.60. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 SOHLUR.

Rhymes with SOLAR POLAR BOLAR TOLAR MOLER

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SOLER is a kind of bottom or seafood.

Synonyms only exclusive lone solitary lonesome single

Opposites multiple shared

Familiarity and learning

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