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

VIVRE

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

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.0% 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 VIVRE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VIVRE 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 77.0% of games, misses completely in 23.0%, and leaves about 237 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,429 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe VIVRE 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.

4.08 Entropy (bits)
237 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 26% of evaluated openers
1.87 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How VIVRE 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,429 Rank among openers
Opening with VIVRE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.82 average. It ranks #12,429 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
690
4 guesses
1,270
5 guesses
318
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
33%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

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

545 answers
262 answers
226 answers
199 answers
193 answers
186 answers
94 answers
72 answers
72 answers
68 answers
54 answers
45 answers
28 answers
27 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
12 answers
11 answers
7 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4I1V4R1E1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing VIVRE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VIVRE:

23% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
10% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.0%
SAULT 5.85 bits
11.0%
SLANT 5.50 bits
9.5%
COAST 5.24 bits
8.4%
SLANT 5.57 bits
8.1%
OATER 4.12 bits
7.8%
SAULT 5.33 bits
4.0%
SALTY 4.12 bits
3.0%
COAST 4.66 bits
3.0%
SAINT 4.23 bits
2.9%
COAST 4.41 bits

Research on VIVRE

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

Optimal play

Opening with VIVRE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,171 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 VIVRE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.82, at or below the proven-optimal 3.87, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it VIHVUR. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
VIVRE 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.

In a sentence

In Brazil, there's a joie de vivre that can barely be imagined in Europe.
© tatoeba.org contributor rul (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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).