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

ATONY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈæt.ə.ni/

Noun

Lack of muscle tone; flaccidity or atonia

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 ATONY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ATONY 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 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 135 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,176 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___Y A in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position A__N_ A in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _T__Y T in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ATONY 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.

5.02 Entropy (bits)
135 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ATONY 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,176 Rank among openers
Opening with ATONY left 1 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 3.64 average. It ranks #3,176 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
940
4 guesses
1,152
5 guesses
181
6 guesses
18
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
37%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

ATONY can come back 106 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

339 answers
296 answers
165 answers
122 answers
121 answers
109 answers
100 answers
98 answers
65 answers
65 answers
63 answers
49 answers
45 answers
43 answers
42 answers
36 answers
32 answers
28 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1T1O1N1Y4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SLIER SACRE SHIER THALE ROULE SIDLE

Strategy after playing ATONY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ATONY:

14% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
12% chance
Suggested:
SACRE
7% chance
Suggested:
SHIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.3% →
SLIER 6.17 bits
12.5% →
SACRE 5.47 bits
7.0% →
SHIER 5.54 bits
5.1% →
THALE 4.77 bits
5.1% →
ROULE 4.92 bits
4.6% →
SIDLE 4.53 bits
4.2% →
SLICE 4.76 bits
4.1% →
RINSE 5.11 bits
2.7% →
ROUET 4.54 bits
2.7% →
SIREN 4.51 bits

Research on ATONY

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

Optimal play

Opening with ATONY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,441 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.82 guesses at best and is rank #2,032 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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.

How it sounds

Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it ATUHNEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ATONY is a kind of status.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ATONY 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); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).