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

ARNUT

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

The earthnut.

Alternative forms: arnot

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

Use ARNUT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.5% 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 ARNUT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ARNUT 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 87.6% of games, misses completely in 12.4%, and leaves about 107 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #373 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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 ARNUT 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.

5.30 Entropy (bits)
107 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ARNUT 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#373 Rank among openers
Opening with ARNUT left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.58 average. It ranks #373 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
1,068
4 guesses
1,034
5 guesses
172
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANRTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
33%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

ARNUT can come back 114 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

296 answers
215 answers
158 answers
135 answers
111 answers
108 answers
100 answers
84 answers
83 answers
61 answers
57 answers
47 answers
47 answers
47 answers
46 answers
44 answers
35 answers
34 answers
34 answers
31 answers
27 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1R1N1U1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing ARNUT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ARNUT:

12% chance
Suggested:
SOCLE
9% chance
Suggested:
CLOSE
7% chance
Suggested:
SOLED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.4% →
SOCLE 6.01 bits
9.0% →
CLOSE 5.35 bits
6.6% →
SOLED 4.95 bits
5.7% →
SOREL 4.51 bits
4.7% →
PULSE 4.81 bits
4.5% →
SLIDE 5.04 bits
4.2% →
HOISE 5.13 bits
3.5% →
TASTE 4.64 bits
3.5% →
SPICE 4.71 bits
2.6% →
SHIEL 4.86 bits

Research on ARNUT

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

Optimal play

Opening with ARNUT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #774 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 ARNUT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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).