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

ANTRA

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of antrum

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

Use ANTRA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% 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 ANTRA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ANTRA 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 82.3% of games, misses completely in 17.7%, and leaves about 176 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,738 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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 ANTRA 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.

4.56 Entropy (bits)
176 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ANTRA 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#5,738 Rank among openers
Opening with ANTRA left 2 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 #5,738 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
897
4 guesses
1,178
5 guesses
206
6 guesses
21

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
21%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

ANTRA can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

421 answers
272 answers
207 answers
180 answers
178 answers
139 answers
97 answers
89 answers
68 answers
60 answers
46 answers
42 answers
39 answers
38 answers
36 answers
36 answers
33 answers
30 answers
29 answers
26 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1N1T1R1A1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing ANTRA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ANTRA:

18% chance
Suggested:
SOCLE
11% chance
Suggested:
POISE
9% chance
Suggested:
SCALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.7%
SOCLE 5.96 bits
11.5%
POISE 5.24 bits
8.7%
SCALE 5.57 bits
7.6%
SHIEL 5.50 bits
7.5%
HOISE 5.33 bits
5.9%
CARLE 4.55 bits
4.1%
SCALE 4.95 bits
3.7%
TOISE 4.84 bits
2.9%
CLOSE 4.39 bits
2.5%
GOIER 4.50 bits

Research on ANTRA

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

Optimal play

Opening with ANTRA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,761 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with ANTRA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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
ANTRA sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).