5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

ATILT

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

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

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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.

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 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 80.6% of games, misses completely in 19.4%, and leaves about 178 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 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.

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

Try next

DORSE SACRE ROUSE RINSE CARSE CRONE
Words starting with A Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.70 Entropy (bits)
178 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 65% of evaluated openers
1.25 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#5,553 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ATILT 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
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AILT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
32%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

98 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

457
312
147
144
137
112
103
74
66
53
51
41
39
39
38
31
31
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ATILT:

19% chance
Suggested:
DORSE
13% chance
Suggested:
SACRE
6% chance
Suggested:
ROUSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.4% →
DORSE 6.00 bits
13.2% →
SACRE 5.46 bits
6.2% →
ROUSE 4.97 bits
6.1% →
RINSE 5.27 bits
5.8% →
CARSE 4.82 bits
4.7% →
CRONE 5.03 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

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.