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

WARRE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Obsolete spelling of war.

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 WARRE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WARRE 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 80.5% of games, misses completely in 19.5%, and leaves about 172 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,272 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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 WARRE 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.

4.69 Entropy (bits)
172 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 64% of evaluated openers
1.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WARRE 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#11,272 Rank among openers
Opening with WARRE left 2 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 3.79 average. It ranks #11,272 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
737
4 guesses
1,210
5 guesses
329
6 guesses
17
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:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
40%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

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

462 answers
204 answers
203 answers
164 answers
141 answers
131 answers
112 answers
88 answers
75 answers
68 answers
48 answers
44 answers
43 answers
34 answers
34 answers
33 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4A1R1R1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing WARRE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WARRE:

19% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
9% chance
Suggested:
INLET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.5%
SOILY 5.69 bits
8.6%
SLANT 5.36 bits
8.6%
INLET 5.11 bits
6.9%
SOILY 4.69 bits
5.9%
SONLY 4.55 bits
5.5%
TENOR 3.80 bits
4.7%
DROIT 4.62 bits
3.7%
LEANT 4.57 bits
3.2%
SLANT 4.34 bits
2.9%
SLANT 4.20 bits

Research on WARRE

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

Optimal play

Opening with WARRE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,354 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.95 guesses at best and is rank #5,311 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79; proven optimal play reaches 3.77. 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 WAWR. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
WARRE sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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).