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

FITTE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Obsolete form of fit (“section of a poem or ballad”).

Adjective

Obsolete form of fit.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use FITTE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.0% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How FITTE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FITTE 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 76.6% of games, misses completely in 23.4%, and leaves about 238 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,687 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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 FITTE 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.

4.32 Entropy (bits)
238 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FITTE 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#10,687 Rank among openers
Opening with FITTE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,687 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
754
4 guesses
1,209
5 guesses
306
6 guesses
22

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
36%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

FITTE can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

557 answers
331 answers
236 answers
185 answers
141 answers
105 answers
71 answers
65 answers
62 answers
42 answers
41 answers
38 answers
36 answers
31 answers
29 answers
28 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4I1T1T1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing FITTE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FITTE:

23% chance
Suggested:
SORAL
14% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
10% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.4% →
SORAL 5.80 bits
13.9% →
SOLAR 5.26 bits
9.9% →
SORAL 4.92 bits
7.8% →
CAIRN 5.27 bits
5.9% →
ROAST 5.39 bits
4.4% →
SLART 4.87 bits
3.0% →
SONLY 4.08 bits
2.7% →
SORAL 3.59 bits
2.6% →
SAINT 4.49 bits
1.8% →
SONAR 4.59 bits

Research on FITTE

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

Optimal play

Opening with FITTE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,203 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.96 guesses at best and is rank #5,567 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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
FITTE 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).