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ALTAR

Yes, ALTAR was the Wordle answer on November 3, 2021 (Wordle #137).

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɒl.tə//ˈɔːl.tə//ˈɔl.tə/

Noun

A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.

Noun

A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: November 3, 2021 (#137).

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The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How ALTAR performs as a guess

ALTAR is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.8% of games, misses completely in 16.2%, and leaves about 149 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,820 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

A___R A in the 1st position and R in the 5th position A__A_ A in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _L__R L in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ALTAR 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.

4.84 Entropy (bits)
149 Avg remaining
0.04% 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 ALTAR 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,820 Rank among openers
Opening with ALTAR 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 3.67 average. It ranks #4,820 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
930
4 guesses
1,141
5 guesses
210
6 guesses
20
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:
ALRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
30%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S P I A L
A L T A R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ALTAR in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

ALTAR can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

385 answers
238 answers
188 answers
162 answers
153 answers
114 answers
103 answers
95 answers
85 answers
85 answers
71 answers
36 answers
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33 answers
32 answers
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26 answers
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16 answers
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13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1L1T1A1R1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

NOISE SIENT CELLO SONCE CADRE TOISE

Strategy after playing ALTAR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ALTAR:

16% chance
Suggested:
NOISE
10% chance
Suggested:
NOISE
8% chance
Suggested:
SIENT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.2% →
NOISE 6.00 bits
10.0% →
NOISE 5.29 bits
7.9% →
SIENT 5.57 bits
6.8% →
CELLO 5.00 bits
6.4% →
SONCE 5.17 bits
4.8% →
CADRE 4.62 bits
4.3% →
TOISE 4.89 bits
4.0% →
NOISE 3.79 bits
3.6% →
SONCE 4.71 bits
3.6% →
SHINE 4.69 bits

Research on ALTAR

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

Optimal play

Opening with ALTAR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,671 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 ALTAR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, 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

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

Rhymes with ALTER

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ALTAR is a kind of table or construction.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ALTAR sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 6 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 83 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.1 of 5).

In a sentence

A beautiful couple before the altar.
© tatoeba.org contributor SunnyMoon (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Tom is an altar boy.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).