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

CARTA

CARTA 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.

Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A surname.

Proper noun

Ellipsis of Magna Carta.

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 CARTA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CARTA 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 79.4% of games, misses completely in 20.6%, and leaves about 181 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,335 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe CARTA 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.

4.69 Entropy (bits)
181 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 64% of evaluated openers
1.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CARTA 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#4,335 Rank among openers
Opening with CARTA left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,335 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
920
4 guesses
1,174
5 guesses
200
6 guesses
8
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:
ART

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
32%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

CARTA can come back 91 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

489 answers
250 answers
174 answers
174 answers
113 answers
90 answers
88 answers
86 answers
78 answers
66 answers
65 answers
55 answers
46 answers
38 answers
36 answers
32 answers
32 answers
32 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1R1T1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing CARTA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CARTA:

21% chance
Suggested:
SIDLE
11% chance
Suggested:
SOLED
7% chance
Suggested:
SIENT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.6%
SIDLE 5.98 bits
10.5%
SOLED 4.99 bits
7.3%
SIENT 5.50 bits
7.3%
SLANE 5.63 bits
4.8%
BRANE 4.60 bits
3.8%
SOLED 4.62 bits
3.7%
SLICE 5.00 bits
3.6%
NOISE 4.65 bits
3.3%
SLADE 4.80 bits
2.8%
SONDE 4.55 bits

Research on CARTA

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

Optimal play

Opening with CARTA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,154 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with CARTA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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 KAHRTUH.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CARTA 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).