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

WRAST

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

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

Meaning and pronunciation

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

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Use WRAST in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% 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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How WRAST performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WRAST 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 83.3% of games, misses completely in 16.7%, and leaves about 135 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #745 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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 WRAST 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.

5.14 Entropy (bits)
135 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WRAST 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#745 Rank among openers
Opening with WRAST solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #745 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
979
4 guesses
1,132
5 guesses
156
6 guesses
9

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ARST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
36%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

WRAST can come back 120 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

398 answers
212 answers
180 answers
127 answers
116 answers
109 answers
96 answers
68 answers
62 answers
61 answers
51 answers
49 answers
45 answers
44 answers
39 answers
38 answers
35 answers
34 answers
30 answers
28 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4R1A1S1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing WRAST

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WRAST:

17% chance
Suggested:
MOILE
9% chance
Suggested:
CLINE
8% chance
Suggested:
FUROR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.7% →
MOILE 5.90 bits
8.9% →
CLINE 5.36 bits
7.6% →
FUROR 4.72 bits
5.3% →
CLINE 5.18 bits
4.9% →
RACER 4.49 bits
4.6% →
TITHE 5.19 bits
4.0% →
PRIED 4.69 bits
2.9% →
CLINE 4.81 bits
2.6% →
LATTE 4.43 bits
2.6% →
CLINE 4.75 bits

Research on WRAST

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

Optimal play

Opening with WRAST, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,942 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.77 guesses at best and is rank #562 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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).