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

ATILT

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

At an angle from the vertical or horizontal.

“The child listened, her head atilt.”

Adverb

At an angle from the vertical or horizontal; at the point of falling over.

“He wore his hat rakishly atilt.”

Adverb

Tilting or as if tilting (charging with a lance, like a knight on horseback in a joust).

“to run / ride atilt at someone or something”

Preposition

Diagonally over or across.

Alternative forms: a-tilt

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

Related meanings

Synonyms leaning tipped tilted inclined

Opposites vertical horizontal

Use ATILT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

Open Solver with ATILT Open Word Finder

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 ATILT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ATILT 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 80.5% of games, misses completely in 19.5%, and leaves about 181 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,553 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

A___T A in the 1st position and T in the 5th position A__L_ A in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _T__T T in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in ATILT.

First-turn measures

All four describe ATILT 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.

4.70 Entropy (bits)
181 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ATILT 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
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#5,553 Rank among openers
Opening with ATILT left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,553 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
911
4 guesses
1,134
5 guesses
227
6 guesses
22

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AILT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
32%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

ATILT can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

465 answers
316 answers
149 answers
145 answers
137 answers
113 answers
104 answers
74 answers
66 answers
53 answers
51 answers
42 answers
40 answers
39 answers
39 answers
31 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
25 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1T1I1L1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

DORSE SACRE CORSE RINSE CARSE CRONE

Strategy after playing ATILT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ATILT:

20% chance
Suggested:
DORSE
13% chance
Suggested:
SACRE
6% chance
Suggested:
CORSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.5% →
DORSE 6.01 bits
13.3% →
SACRE 5.46 bits
6.2% →
CORSE 4.88 bits
6.1% →
RINSE 5.29 bits
5.7% →
CARSE 4.82 bits
4.7% →
CRONE 5.02 bits
4.4% →
SHOER 5.32 bits
3.1% →
TARSE 4.59 bits
2.8% →
CRUSE 5.16 bits
2.2% →
SOLDE 4.20 bits

Research on ATILT

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

Optimal play

Opening with ATILT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,738 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.87 guesses at best and is rank #3,416 of the 7,453 openers that can still 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0).