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

INTIS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of inti

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

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it IHNTIHS.

Use INTIS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 88.4% 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 INTIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts INTIS 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 71.9% of games, misses completely in 28.1%, and leaves about 277 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,292 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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 INTIS 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.

4.06 Entropy (bits)
277 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How INTIS 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#9,292 Rank among openers
Opening with INTIS left 2 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 3.75 average. It ranks #9,292 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
794
4 guesses
1,246
5 guesses
247
6 guesses
20

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
INST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
17%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

INTIS can come back 69 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

669 answers
241 answers
205 answers
196 answers
161 answers
130 answers
79 answers
70 answers
63 answers
59 answers
54 answers
45 answers
42 answers
30 answers
29 answers
26 answers
25 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1N1T1I1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing INTIS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing INTIS:

28% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
10% chance
Suggested:
PARLE
9% chance
Suggested:
HAOLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.1% →
CARLE 6.19 bits
10.1% →
PARLE 5.71 bits
8.6% →
HAOLE 5.26 bits
8.2% →
TREAT 5.50 bits
6.8% →
DROLE 5.25 bits
5.5% →
SOARE 4.92 bits
3.3% →
GLARE 4.43 bits
2.9% →
CADRE 4.57 bits
2.6% →
TRITE 4.64 bits
2.5% →
SPILE 4.40 bits

Research on INTIS

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

Optimal play

Opening with INTIS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,097 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.93 guesses at best and is rank #4,909 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD).