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

AMORT

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

As if dead; depressed

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Middle French à la mort (“to the death”) reinterpreted as all amort.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use AMORT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How AMORT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AMORT 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 85.9% of games, misses completely in 14.1%, and leaves about 123 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #942 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe AMORT 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.

5.17 Entropy (bits)
123 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AMORT 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#942 Rank among openers
Opening with AMORT left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #942 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
1,022
4 guesses
1,063
5 guesses
179
6 guesses
18

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
30%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

AMORT can come back 115 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

336 answers
235 answers
188 answers
130 answers
121 answers
100 answers
86 answers
80 answers
69 answers
65 answers
55 answers
50 answers
48 answers
47 answers
46 answers
39 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
16 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1M3O1R1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing AMORT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AMORT:

14% chance
Suggested:
SLICE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
8% chance
Suggested:
SEINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.1% →
SLICE 6.09 bits
9.9% →
SLANE 5.53 bits
7.9% →
SEINE 5.17 bits
5.5% →
SABLE 4.36 bits
5.1% →
SIDLE 4.93 bits
4.2% →
SHITE 5.05 bits
3.6% →
TASTE 4.73 bits
3.4% →
SOCLE 4.63 bits
2.9% →
SHIEL 4.97 bits
2.7% →
SORER 4.28 bits

Research on AMORT

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

Optimal play

Opening with AMORT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,387 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.75 guesses at best and is rank #276 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).