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

WRENS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of wren

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 WRENS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WRENS 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 84.5% of games, misses completely in 15.5%, and leaves about 148 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,460 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

W___S W in the 1st position and S in the 5th position W__N_ W in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _R__S R in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe WRENS 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.

4.83 Entropy (bits)
148 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WRENS 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#5,460 Rank among openers
Opening with WRENS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,460 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
885
4 guesses
1,178
5 guesses
217
6 guesses
14
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ENRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
27%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

WRENS can come back 96 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

367 answers
258 answers
185 answers
181 answers
151 answers
111 answers
103 answers
89 answers
82 answers
71 answers
63 answers
54 answers
42 answers
37 answers
35 answers
29 answers
29 answers
27 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4R1E1N1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

COALY DEALT PATEE SAULT CAROL TONIC

Strategy after playing WRENS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WRENS:

15% chance
Suggested:
COALY
11% chance
Suggested:
DEALT
8% chance
Suggested:
PATEE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.5% →
COALY 5.66 bits
10.9% →
DEALT 5.45 bits
7.8% →
PATEE 4.56 bits
7.6% →
SAULT 5.23 bits
6.4% →
CAROL 5.25 bits
4.7% →
TONIC 5.07 bits
4.3% →
PLATE 4.99 bits
3.7% →
AINEE 4.57 bits
3.5% →
COAST 4.14 bits
3.0% →
GAUNT 4.14 bits

Research on WRENS

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

Optimal play

Opening with WRENS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,726 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,264 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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

One syllable Say it REHNZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, WRENS is a kind of bird.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
WRENS 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.3 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).