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

AMBIT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈæmbɪt/

Noun

The extent of actions, thoughts, or the meaning of words, etc.

Noun

The boundary around a building, town, region, etc.

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 AMBIT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AMBIT 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 79.3% of games, misses completely in 20.7%, and leaves about 205 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,422 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___T A in the 1st position and T in the 5th position A__I_ A in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _M__T M in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe AMBIT 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.

4.54 Entropy (bits)
205 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 54% of evaluated openers
1.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AMBIT 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#5,422 Rank among openers
Opening with AMBIT 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 3.68 average. It ranks #5,422 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
907
4 guesses
1,139
5 guesses
240
6 guesses
10
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:
AIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
24%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

AMBIT can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

492 answers
344 answers
234 answers
130 answers
112 answers
78 answers
73 answers
72 answers
64 answers
64 answers
55 answers
53 answers
49 answers
46 answers
43 answers
33 answers
27 answers
23 answers
23 answers
19 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1M3B3I1T1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SOLER SACRE RINSE SHOER TARTE POREY

Strategy after playing AMBIT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AMBIT:

21% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
14% chance
Suggested:
SACRE
10% chance
Suggested:
RINSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.7% →
SOLER 5.97 bits
14.5% →
SACRE 5.53 bits
9.9% →
RINSE 5.29 bits
5.5% →
SHOER 5.52 bits
4.7% →
TARTE 4.95 bits
3.3% →
POREY 4.81 bits
3.1% →
SOREL 4.98 bits
3.0% →
CARLE 4.82 bits
2.7% →
TRITE 4.36 bits
2.7% →
DROLE 4.98 bits

Research on AMBIT

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

Optimal play

Opening with AMBIT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #5,134 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,725 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, 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 first syllable Say it AMBIHT. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, AMBIT is a kind of extent.

Synonyms RANGE REACH SCOPE ORBIT compass

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AMBIT 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).