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

VIRED

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of vire

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use VIRED in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

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 VIRED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VIRED 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 80.3% of games, misses completely in 19.7%, and leaves about 180 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,172 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe VIRED 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.

4.73 Entropy (bits)
180 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How VIRED 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,172 Rank among openers
Opening with VIRED left 1 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 #5,172 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
877
4 guesses
1,181
5 guesses
211
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
31%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

VIRED can come back 107 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

468 answers
290 answers
177 answers
175 answers
119 answers
99 answers
78 answers
75 answers
75 answers
65 answers
64 answers
54 answers
52 answers
34 answers
29 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4I1R1E1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing VIRED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VIRED:

20% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
12% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.7%
SLANT 5.92 bits
12.2%
SLATE 5.84 bits
7.5%
COAST 5.44 bits
7.4%
SLANT 5.63 bits
5.0%
TRACE 4.90 bits
4.2%
COAST 3.62 bits
3.3%
SLANT 4.72 bits
3.2%
COAST 4.74 bits
3.2%
SLATY 4.13 bits
2.7%
SLANT 4.51 bits

Research on VIRED

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

Optimal play

Opening with VIRED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,807 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 VIRED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).