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

ANSAS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 ANSAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ANSAS 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 68.1% of games, misses completely in 31.9%, and leaves about 354 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,701 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 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.

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__A_ A in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _N__S N in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position AN_AS A in the 1st position, N in the 2nd position, A in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE CARLE PORTE GOIER THALE TRINE
Words starting with A Words ending with S

First-turn measures

All four describe ANSAS 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.

3.64 Entropy (bits)
354 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.31 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ANSAS 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.

3.88 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#13,701 Rank among openers
Opening with ANSAS left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.88 average. It ranks #13,701 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
652
4 guesses
1,256
5 guesses
370
6 guesses
35
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
20%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

ANSAS can come back 64 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

753 answers
329 answers
248 answers
231 answers
116 answers
98 answers
87 answers
65 answers
58 answers
47 answers
34 answers
26 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ANSAS:

32% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
14% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
11% chance
Suggested:
PORTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.9% →
TOILE 6.01 bits
13.9% →
CARLE 5.45 bits
10.5% →
PORTE 5.50 bits
9.8% →
GOIER 5.39 bits
4.9% →
THALE 4.72 bits
4.2% →
TRINE 4.47 bits
3.7% →
CRUET 4.52 bits
2.8% →
DROLE 4.94 bits
2.5% →
TOILE 4.30 bits
2.0% →
TUILE 4.65 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1N1S1A1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

The science of ANSAS

What game-tree analysis and word research measure about ANSAS — each figure with what it means.

Optimal play

Opening with ANSAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses — rank #13,833 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.05 guesses at best — rank #6,742 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.88 — at or below the proven-optimal 3.90 only 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) — not the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable — say it ANSUHZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.