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

BALTI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbɔːl.ti/

Noun

A large iron pan having two handles, especially used in Pakistani cuisine

Noun

A style of curry traditionally cooked in a balti pan, typically stir-fried and served with a relatively dry sauce.

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 BALTI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BALTI 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 82.8% of games, misses completely in 17.2%, and leaves about 153 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,729 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

B___I B in the 1st position and I in the 5th position B__T_ B in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__I A in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BALTI 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.

4.84 Entropy (bits)
153 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.10 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BALTI 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,729 Rank among openers
Opening with BALTI solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,729 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
951
4 guesses
1,145
5 guesses
186
6 guesses
11
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:
AILT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
28%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

BALTI can come back 99 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

408 answers
227 answers
199 answers
157 answers
136 answers
116 answers
108 answers
98 answers
78 answers
74 answers
41 answers
38 answers
37 answers
34 answers
32 answers
31 answers
31 answers
29 answers
27 answers
24 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3A1L1T1I1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

CORSE RINSE SCARE SENOR ROUSE MORNE

Strategy after playing BALTI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BALTI:

17% chance
Suggested:
CORSE
10% chance
Suggested:
RINSE
8% chance
Suggested:
SCARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.2% →
CORSE 6.09 bits
9.6% →
RINSE 5.48 bits
8.4% →
SCARE 5.44 bits
6.6% →
SENOR 5.55 bits
5.7% →
ROUSE 5.08 bits
4.9% →
MORNE 4.75 bits
4.5% →
CLAME 4.59 bits
4.1% →
HEIST 4.55 bits
3.3% →
REAST 4.99 bits
3.1% →
DRICE 4.38 bits

Research on BALTI

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

Optimal play

Opening with BALTI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,405 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.77 guesses at best and is rank #620 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it BAHLTEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BALTI 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).