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

AVAST

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈvɑːst//-ˈvæst//əˈvæst/

Interjection

Hold fast! Cease! Stop! Desist!

Interjection

Listen! Pay attention!

“Avast, ye landlubbers!”

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 AVAST performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AVAST 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 71.0% of games, misses completely in 29.0%, and leaves about 276 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,589 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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.

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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__S_ A in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _V__T V in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe AVAST 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.

4.19 Entropy (bits)
276 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 32% of evaluated openers
1.76 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AVAST 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,589 Rank among openers
Opening with AVAST 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 3.77 average. It ranks #10,589 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
773
4 guesses
1,218
5 guesses
292
6 guesses
22
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
31%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

AVAST can come back 79 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

689 answers
231 answers
191 answers
188 answers
115 answers
89 answers
76 answers
70 answers
65 answers
58 answers
58 answers
48 answers
40 answers
38 answers
30 answers
29 answers
26 answers
25 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
15 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1V4A1S1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

RIONE CARLE NOIRE TRITE DRICE GOIER

Strategy after playing AVAST

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AVAST:

29% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
10% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.0% →
RIONE 5.96 bits
9.7% →
CARLE 5.31 bits
8.0% →
NOIRE 5.08 bits
7.9% →
TRITE 5.47 bits
4.8% →
DRICE 5.06 bits
3.7% →
GOIER 4.88 bits
3.2% →
TARTE 4.52 bits
2.9% →
LOURE 4.69 bits
2.7% →
IRONE 4.98 bits
2.4% →
ROUTE 4.31 bits

Research on AVAST

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

Optimal play

Opening with AVAST, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,132 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.95 guesses at best and is rank #5,188 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it UHVAST. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AVAST sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).