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

VERTE

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

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

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

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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 VERTE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VERTE 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 76.2% of games, misses completely in 23.8%, and leaves about 211 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,056 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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 VERTE 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.

4.56 Entropy (bits)
211 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 56% of evaluated openers
1.39 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How VERTE 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#9,056 Rank among openers
Opening with VERTE left 1 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 3.74 average. It ranks #9,056 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
803
4 guesses
1,195
5 guesses
272
6 guesses
22
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
2 vowels
Common:
ERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
36%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

VERTE can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

565 answers
222 answers
211 answers
163 answers
119 answers
113 answers
80 answers
66 answers
64 answers
62 answers
62 answers
56 answers
35 answers
35 answers
29 answers
27 answers
25 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4E1R1T1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing VERTE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VERTE:

24% chance
Suggested:
SALON
9% chance
Suggested:
DRAIN
9% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.8%
SALON 5.77 bits
9.4%
DRAIN 5.18 bits
8.9%
SAINT 5.43 bits
6.9%
SLANE 4.62 bits
5.0%
SOLAR 4.08 bits
4.8%
ALIEN 5.27 bits
3.4%
COAST 4.61 bits
2.8%
SOAPY 3.91 bits
2.7%
SAUCY 4.71 bits
2.6%
SOILY 4.36 bits

Research on VERTE

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

Optimal play

Opening with VERTE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,824 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.90 guesses at best and is rank #4,261 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, 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

One syllable Say it VURT. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
VERTE 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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).