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

ADVTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of advt

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 ADVTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ADVTS 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 78.4% of games, misses completely in 21.6%, and leaves about 219 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,520 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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 ADVTS 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.

4.22 Entropy (bits)
219 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 34% of evaluated openers
1.73 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ADVTS 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.66 Spread of game lengths
#7,520 Rank among openers
Opening with ADVTS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.66 means those games clustered within about 0.66 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,520 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
824
4 guesses
1,288
5 guesses
194
6 guesses
12
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:
AST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
16%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

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

513 answers
297 answers
219 answers
183 answers
169 answers
116 answers
112 answers
100 answers
73 answers
67 answers
61 answers
46 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1D2V4T1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing ADVTS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ADVTS:

22% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
13% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
9% chance
Suggested:
POIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.6%
RIONE 5.97 bits
12.5%
CARLE 5.62 bits
9.2%
POIRE 5.33 bits
7.7%
ROUET 5.42 bits
7.1%
RIONE 5.48 bits
4.9%
SPALE 4.77 bits
4.7%
CARNE 4.54 bits
4.2%
ROUET 4.67 bits
3.1%
DRONE 4.54 bits
2.8%
PLORE 4.86 bits

Research on ADVTS

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

Optimal play

Opening with ADVTS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,081 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.87 guesses at best and is rank #3,472 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it ADVUHTS. 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.