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

YARER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

comparative form of yare: more yare

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 YARER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YARER 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 85.8% of games, misses completely in 14.2%, and leaves about 147 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,090 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

First-turn measures

All four describe YARER 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.

4.70 Entropy (bits)
147 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 65% of evaluated openers
1.24 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How YARER 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#11,090 Rank among openers
Opening with YARER 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 3.79 average. It ranks #11,090 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
760
4 guesses
1,211
5 guesses
299
6 guesses
30
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)
86%
Green tile
32%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

YARER can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

337 answers
268 answers
196 answers
165 answers
149 answers
126 answers
96 answers
92 answers
89 answers
89 answers
84 answers
65 answers
60 answers
43 answers
36 answers
34 answers
31 answers
28 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers
21 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4A1R1E1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing YARER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YARER:

14% chance
Suggested:
CLOUT
11% chance
Suggested:
SEINE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.2%
CLOUT 5.80 bits
11.3%
SEINE 5.34 bits
8.3%
SLANT 5.38 bits
7.0%
SOILY 4.37 bits
6.3%
SLANT 5.02 bits
5.3%
PRINT 4.87 bits
4.0%
STEEL 4.34 bits
3.9%
TROPE 4.43 bits
3.7%
SLANT 4.05 bits
3.7%
SATIN 4.23 bits

Research on YARER

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

Optimal play

Opening with YARER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #8,970 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 YARER can 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

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

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.