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

ALANT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of alaunt.

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 ALANT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ALANT 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 79.7% of games, misses completely in 20.3%, and leaves about 171 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,199 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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First-turn measures

All four describe ALANT 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.

4.79 Entropy (bits)
171 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 71% of evaluated openers
1.15 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ALANT 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,199 Rank among openers
Opening with ALANT left 2 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 3.64 average. It ranks #3,199 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
951
4 guesses
1,136
5 guesses
181
6 guesses
23
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:
ALNT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
36%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

ALANT can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

481 answers
183 answers
182 answers
163 answers
153 answers
103 answers
102 answers
86 answers
76 answers
74 answers
68 answers
55 answers
34 answers
32 answers
29 answers
29 answers
29 answers
24 answers
24 answers
21 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1L1A1N1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing ALANT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ALANT:

20% chance
Suggested:
DORSE
8% chance
Suggested:
SHORE
8% chance
Suggested:
SILER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.3%
DORSE 5.97 bits
7.7%
SHORE 5.48 bits
7.7%
SILER 4.93 bits
6.9%
SIDER 5.31 bits
6.4%
SORED 5.01 bits
4.3%
CRUSE 5.05 bits
4.3%
SIRED 5.19 bits
3.6%
SALLE 4.61 bits
3.2%
SOUCE 4.76 bits
3.1%
GORSE 4.56 bits

Research on ALANT

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

Optimal play

Opening with ALANT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,970 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 ALANT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 second syllable Say it UHLAHNT. 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.