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INWIT

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɪnwɪt/

Noun

Inward knowledge or understanding.

Noun

Conscience; inward sense of morality.

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

Etymology

From Middle English inwit (“mind, reason, intellect, understanding; soul, spirit; feeling; the collection of inner faculties; one of five inner faculties; one of the outer bodily senses.; inward awareness of right or wrong, conscience”), from Old English *inwitt, inġewitnes (“consciousness, conscience, knowledge, knowing”), equivalent to in- + wit. Compare Scots inwit, Saterland Frisian Gewieten, West Frisian gewisse, Dutch geweten, German Low German Geweten, German Gewissen.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use INWIT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 83.9% of possible answers.

Open Solver with INWIT Open Word Finder

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 INWIT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts INWIT 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 64.5% of games, misses completely in 35.5%, and leaves about 385 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,634 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

I___T I in the 1st position and T in the 5th position I__I_ I in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _N__T N in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position IN_IT I in the 1st position, N in the 2nd position, I in the 4th position, and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe INWIT 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.

3.69 Entropy (bits)
385 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How INWIT 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#12,634 Rank among openers
Opening with INWIT left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.83 average. It ranks #12,634 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
29
3 guesses
738
4 guesses
1,220
5 guesses
337
6 guesses
29

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
INT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
21%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

INWIT can come back 59 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

847 answers
253 answers
216 answers
206 answers
128 answers
89 answers
69 answers
69 answers
60 answers
41 answers
35 answers
35 answers
29 answers
28 answers
26 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1N1W4I1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SOARE HAOLE SLIER SERAL SARGE CARLE

Strategy after playing INWIT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing INWIT:

36% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
11% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
9% chance
Suggested:
HAOLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.5% →
SOARE 6.13 bits
10.6% →
SOARE 5.67 bits
9.1% →
HAOLE 5.26 bits
8.6% →
SLIER 5.30 bits
5.4% →
SERAL 5.31 bits
3.7% →
SARGE 4.49 bits
2.9% →
CARLE 5.00 bits
2.9% →
SERAL 5.25 bits
2.5% →
SHITE 4.35 bits
1.7% →
ALOSE 4.66 bits

Research on INWIT

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

Optimal play

Opening with INWIT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,673 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.98 guesses at best and is rank #5,854 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, 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).