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CULTY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkʌlti/

Adjective

Resembling a cult.

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 CULTY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CULTY 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 77.5% of games, misses completely in 22.5%, and leaves about 206 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,880 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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.

C___Y C in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position C__T_ C in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CULTY 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.

4.56 Entropy (bits)
206 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 56% of evaluated openers
1.39 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CULTY 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,880 Rank among openers
Opening with CULTY 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 3.65 average. It ranks #3,880 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
928
4 guesses
1,161
5 guesses
192
6 guesses
15
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
1 vowels
Common:
LTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
35%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

CULTY can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

535 answers
253 answers
245 answers
149 answers
99 answers
92 answers
89 answers
67 answers
59 answers
56 answers
50 answers
47 answers
42 answers
41 answers
38 answers
35 answers
35 answers
33 answers
28 answers
26 answers
23 answers
21 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3U1L1T1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

ARISE RAISE SNORE SOARE SERAL SNARE

Strategy after playing CULTY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CULTY:

23% chance
Suggested:
ARISE
11% chance
Suggested:
ARISE
10% chance
Suggested:
RAISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.5% →
ARISE 6.20 bits
10.7% →
ARISE 5.85 bits
10.3% →
RAISE 5.44 bits
6.3% →
SNORE 4.93 bits
4.2% →
RAISE 5.27 bits
3.9% →
SNORE 5.26 bits
3.7% →
SOARE 5.25 bits
2.8% →
SERAL 4.55 bits
2.5% →
SOARE 4.74 bits
2.4% →
SNORE 4.48 bits

Research on CULTY

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

Optimal play

Opening with CULTY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,592 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,738 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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 KUHLTEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

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