BALTI
BALTI is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈbɔːl.ti/
- Noun
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A large iron pan having two handles, especially used in Pakistani cuisine
- Noun
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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.
Etymology
From Urdu بالٹی (baalti, “pail”), originally coined by Birmingham restaurateur Afzal Butt because English people had difficulty pronouncing karahi, the name of the dish used for cooking this food.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
Use BALTI in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
NoThe solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
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See what the public sample says →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 82.7% of games, misses completely in 17.3%, and leaves about 154 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
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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.
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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Feedback distribution
BALTI can come back 99 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for BALTI; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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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:
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.
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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).