AMITY
AMITY is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈæmɪti/[ˈɛəmɪɾi]
- Noun
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Friendship; friendliness.
- Noun
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Mutual understanding and a peaceful relationship, especially between nations.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English amite, from Old French amisté, amitie, amistiet, from Vulgar Latin *amīcitātem, derived from Latin amīcus (“friend”), from amō (“love”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it AMIHTEE.
In a sentence
The two countries signed a treaty of amity and cooperation.
The treaty was signed to promote amity between the two nations.
Use AMITY in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
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See what the public sample says →How AMITY performs as a guess
AMITY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.1% of games, misses completely in 17.9%, and leaves about 173 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,253 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe AMITY 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How AMITY 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches AMITY in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
AMITY can come back 93 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for AMITY; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing AMITY
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to AMITY.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing AMITY:
Research on AMITY
Game-tree analysis and word research for AMITY, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with AMITY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,453 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,806 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- AMITY 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).