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

ABAHT

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈbɑːt//əˈbɑt/

Adverb

Pronunciation spelling of about.

Preposition

Pronunciation spelling of about.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use ABAHT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 86.8% 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 ABAHT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ABAHT 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 68.5% of games, misses completely in 31.5%, and leaves about 314 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,950 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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 ABAHT 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.

3.98 Entropy (bits)
314 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ABAHT 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#9,950 Rank among openers
Opening with ABAHT left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #9,950 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
798
4 guesses
1,226
5 guesses
279
6 guesses
14

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
28%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

ABAHT can come back 66 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

752 answers
251 answers
171 answers
144 answers
130 answers
121 answers
114 answers
77 answers
66 answers
65 answers
52 answers
44 answers
38 answers
29 answers
28 answers
25 answers
24 answers
20 answers
19 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1B3A1H4T1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing ABAHT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ABAHT:

32% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
11% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
7% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.5% →
RIONE 5.99 bits
10.5% →
CARLE 5.33 bits
7.2% →
NOIRE 5.45 bits
6.0% →
CORSE 5.46 bits
5.5% →
SCIRE 4.89 bits
5.1% →
SLIER 5.29 bits
4.8% →
LOURE 5.29 bits
3.2% →
TARTE 4.66 bits
2.8% →
ROUTE 4.64 bits
2.7% →
IRONE 5.04 bits

Research on ABAHT

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

Optimal play

Opening with ABAHT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,214 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 ABAHT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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).