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

STYRE

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

No dictionary definition for STYRE is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 95.7% of possible answers.

Open Solver with STYRE Open Word Finder

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

Check STYRE on Wiktionary or report a missing entry.

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 STYRE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts STYRE 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 89.1% of games, misses completely in 10.9%, and leaves about 103 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,108 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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.
See strategy patterns

Useful pattern pages

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

S___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _T__E T in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position ST_RE S in the 1st position, T in the 2nd position, R in the 4th position, and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe STYRE 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.

5.21 Entropy (bits)
103 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 92% of evaluated openers
0.74 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How STYRE 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,108 Rank among openers
Opening with STYRE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #5,108 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
878
4 guesses
1,192
5 guesses
188
6 guesses
26
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
1 vowels
Common:
ERST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
36%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

STYRE can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

259 answers
162 answers
152 answers
151 answers
150 answers
142 answers
138 answers
84 answers
79 answers
69 answers
60 answers
50 answers
45 answers
42 answers
40 answers
36 answers
36 answers
33 answers
30 answers
30 answers
30 answers
28 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1Y4R1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

CLAIM BARON ALINE AIDER TAINT ALIEN

Strategy after playing STYRE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STYRE:

11% chance
Suggested:
CLAIM
7% chance
Suggested:
BARON
6% chance
Suggested:
ALINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.9% →
CLAIM 6.00 bits
6.8% →
BARON 5.00 bits
6.4% →
ALINE 4.56 bits
6.4% →
AIDER 4.04 bits
6.3% →
TAINT 5.15 bits
6.0% →
ALIEN 5.27 bits
5.8% →
DAILY 4.49 bits
3.5% →
SNAIL 4.57 bits
3.3% →
DEALT 4.48 bits
2.9% →
GROPE 3.57 bits

Research on STYRE

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

Optimal play

Opening with STYRE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,188 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 STYRE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67; proven optimal play reaches 3.66. 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

One syllable Say it STYR. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.