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

INCUT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Set in by or as if by cutting.

Adjective

Inserted in a reserved space of the text instead of in the main margin.

Noun

A note inserted in a reserved space of the text instead of in the main margin.

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 INCUT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts INCUT 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 77.0% of games, misses completely in 23.0%, and leaves about 203 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,407 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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First-turn measures

All four describe INCUT 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)
203 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.5% 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 INCUT 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
99.83% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,407 Rank among openers
Opening with INCUT left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,407 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
912
4 guesses
1,168
5 guesses
191
6 guesses
20
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
2 vowels
Common:
INTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
19%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

INCUT can come back 96 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

545 answers
218 answers
188 answers
155 answers
139 answers
139 answers
99 answers
74 answers
67 answers
53 answers
51 answers
44 answers
40 answers
36 answers
34 answers
32 answers
31 answers
30 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1N1C3U1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing INCUT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing INCUT:

23% chance
Suggested:
SERAL
9% chance
Suggested:
SIDLE
8% chance
Suggested:
TARTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.0%
SERAL 6.11 bits
9.2%
SIDLE 5.44 bits
7.9%
TARTE 5.74 bits
6.5%
SOREL 5.26 bits
5.9%
SLYER 5.01 bits
5.9%
SHARE 5.59 bits
4.2%
SARGE 4.70 bits
3.1%
SERAL 5.24 bits
2.8%
TARTE 4.55 bits
2.2%
GORSE 4.14 bits

Research on INCUT

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

Optimal play

Opening with INCUT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,726 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 INCUT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, 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 IHNGKUHT. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.