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

URARI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.5% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of curare.

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 URARI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts URARI 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 85.9% of games, misses completely in 14.1%, and leaves about 177 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,259 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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 URARI 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.

4.39 Entropy (bits)
177 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 45% of evaluated openers
1.55 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How URARI 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#12,259 Rank among openers
Opening with URARI left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.82 average. It ranks #12,259 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
742
4 guesses
1,213
5 guesses
320
6 guesses
36
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:
AIRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
28%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

URARI can come back 70 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

334 answers
312 answers
285 answers
203 answers
160 answers
124 answers
113 answers
76 answers
74 answers
66 answers
57 answers
56 answers
55 answers
50 answers
39 answers
39 answers
37 answers
30 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1R1A1R1I1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing URARI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing URARI:

14% chance
Suggested:
STOLE
13% chance
Suggested:
SIENT
12% chance
Suggested:
CLOTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.1%
STOLE 5.67 bits
13.1%
SIENT 5.27 bits
12.0%
CLOTE 5.25 bits
8.6%
SONLY 4.90 bits
6.7%
STOLE 5.09 bits
5.2%
SENTE 4.73 bits
4.8%
TALER 4.65 bits
3.2%
SAINT 4.37 bits
3.1%
CONTE 4.17 bits
2.8%
RISEN 4.28 bits

Research on URARI

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

Optimal play

Opening with URARI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,540 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.01 guesses at best and is rank #6,334 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.82, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, 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

Three syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it YURAHREE. 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.