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

ANATA

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of anatta.

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

Use ANATA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 86.1% 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

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 ANATA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ANATA 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 68.9% of games, misses completely in 31.1%, and leaves about 329 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,280 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe ANATA 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.

3.77 Entropy (bits)
329 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ANATA 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,280 Rank among openers
Opening with ANATA left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.86 average. It ranks #13,280 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
685
4 guesses
1,250
5 guesses
353
6 guesses
30

Composition

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ANT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
28%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

ANATA can come back 58 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

739 answers
263 answers
245 answers
221 answers
161 answers
81 answers
76 answers
69 answers
54 answers
53 answers
47 answers
39 answers
32 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1N1A1T1A1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing ANATA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ANATA:

31% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
11% chance
Suggested:
SHIER
10% chance
Suggested:
RIONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.1%
SOLER 5.92 bits
11.1%
SHIER 5.58 bits
10.3%
RIONE 5.32 bits
9.3%
SLYER 5.28 bits
6.8%
CRISE 5.10 bits
3.4%
TREAT 4.39 bits
3.2%
SHORE 4.77 bits
2.9%
CANER 4.48 bits
2.3%
BLORE 4.74 bits
2.2%
CRISE 4.44 bits

Research on ANATA

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

Optimal play

Opening with ANATA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.89 guesses and ranks #13,574 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.03 guesses at best and is rank #6,572 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.86, at or below the proven-optimal 3.89, 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
ANATA 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).