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

ALTOS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of alto

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 ALTOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ALTOS 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 87.6% of games, misses completely in 12.4%, and leaves about 111 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #255 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

A___S A in the 1st position and S in the 5th position A__O_ A in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position AL_OS A in the 1st position, L in the 2nd position, O in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ALTOS 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.

5.23 Entropy (bits)
111 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 93% of evaluated openers
0.72 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ALTOS 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.

3.57 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#255 Rank among openers
Opening with ALTOS 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 3.57 average. It ranks #255 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
81
3 guesses
1,035
4 guesses
1,062
5 guesses
162
6 guesses
13
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
2 vowels
Common:
ALOST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
24%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

ALTOS can come back 119 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

295 answers
213 answers
180 answers
124 answers
123 answers
116 answers
90 answers
88 answers
80 answers
67 answers
55 answers
55 answers
50 answers
47 answers
46 answers
39 answers
38 answers
36 answers
34 answers
33 answers
30 answers
28 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1L1T1O1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

DINER CADRE CRONE SPIER THEIR LIBEL

Strategy after playing ALTOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ALTOS:

12% chance
Suggested:
DINER
9% chance
Suggested:
CADRE
8% chance
Suggested:
CRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.4% →
DINER 6.03 bits
9.0% →
CADRE 5.35 bits
7.6% →
CRONE 5.27 bits
5.2% →
SPIER 5.45 bits
5.2% →
THEIR 5.38 bits
4.9% →
LIBEL 4.97 bits
3.8% →
CARLE 4.48 bits
3.7% →
SPAER 4.75 bits
3.4% →
TRICE 4.84 bits
2.8% →
SIENT 4.63 bits

Research on ALTOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with ALTOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,056 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 ALTOS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.57, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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 ALTOHZ.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ALTOS is a kind of singer or voice.

Synonyms high low

Opposites high low

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ALTOS sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (2.2 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).