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WOOER

Yes, WOOER was the Wordle answer on September 5, 2021 (Wordle #78).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈwuːə//ˈwuəɹ/

Noun

Someone who woos or courts.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: September 5, 2021 (#78).

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The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How WOOER performs as a guess

WOOER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 77.8% of games, misses completely in 22.2%, and leaves about 232 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,525 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

W___R W in the 1st position and R in the 5th position W__E_ W in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__R O in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in WOOER.

First-turn measures

All four describe WOOER 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.

4.36 Entropy (bits)
232 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 42% of evaluated openers
1.59 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WOOER 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#11,525 Rank among openers
Opening with WOOER left 3 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 3.80 average. It ranks #11,525 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
762
4 guesses
1,184
5 guesses
332
6 guesses
25
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:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
38%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S M O C K
W O O E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WOOER in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

WOOER can come back 80 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

527 answers
384 answers
208 answers
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113 answers
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93 answers
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14 answers
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11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4O1O1E1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SLAIN SLATE SAINT TEASE SAULT SLANT

Strategy after playing WOOER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WOOER:

22% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
16% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.2% →
SLAIN 5.88 bits
16.2% →
SLATE 5.68 bits
8.8% →
SAINT 5.26 bits
7.4% →
TEASE 4.67 bits
4.8% →
SAULT 4.43 bits
4.3% →
SAINT 3.80 bits
3.9% →
SLANT 4.82 bits
2.7% →
BATON 4.91 bits
2.3% →
SLANT 4.77 bits
1.9% →
SLANT 3.97 bits

Research on WOOER

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

Optimal play

Opening with WOOER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,227 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 WOOER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80; proven optimal play reaches 3.79. 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

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

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, WOOER is a kind of admirer.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
WOOER 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).