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

GLENT

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Archaic form of glint.

Verb

Archaic form of glint.

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

Use GLENT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% 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 GLENT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GLENT 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 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 136 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,779 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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 GLENT 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.

5.04 Entropy (bits)
136 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GLENT 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#1,779 Rank among openers
Opening with GLENT left 2 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 3.62 average. It ranks #1,779 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
940
4 guesses
1,176
5 guesses
149
6 guesses
15

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ELNT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
32%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

GLENT can come back 108 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

342 answers
285 answers
161 answers
154 answers
118 answers
109 answers
107 answers
93 answers
79 answers
67 answers
58 answers
46 answers
36 answers
36 answers
34 answers
29 answers
29 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2L1E1N1T1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing GLENT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GLENT:

14% chance
Suggested:
CAROM
12% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
7% chance
Suggested:
LOYAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.3% →
CAROM 5.92 bits
12.0% →
RAISE 5.26 bits
6.8% →
LOYAL 4.93 bits
6.5% →
SITAR 4.93 bits
4.9% →
TARTE 5.00 bits
4.6% →
CAIRN 5.20 bits
4.5% →
BEARE 4.65 bits
3.9% →
AINEE 4.50 bits
3.3% →
ARISE 4.85 bits
2.8% →
COAST 4.13 bits

Research on GLENT

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

Optimal play

Opening with GLENT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,756 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.76 guesses at best and is rank #461 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).