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

LANAS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A barangay of Barbaza, Antique, Philippines.

Proper noun

A barangay of Dingras, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.

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 LANAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LANAS 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 78.2% of games, misses completely in 21.8%, and leaves about 196 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,220 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.

L___S L in the 1st position and S in the 5th position L__A_ L in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LANAS 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.

4.53 Entropy (bits)
196 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 54% of evaluated openers
1.42 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LANAS 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#7,220 Rank among openers
Opening with LANAS left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,220 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
852
4 guesses
1,198
5 guesses
224
6 guesses
23
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ALNS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
28%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

LANAS can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

517 answers
230 answers
205 answers
159 answers
145 answers
121 answers
82 answers
75 answers
74 answers
63 answers
61 answers
48 answers
48 answers
38 answers
35 answers
34 answers
34 answers
32 answers
30 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
12 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1A1N1A1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

TRODE ROUET ROULE TRIDE CRATE TRICE

Strategy after playing LANAS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LANAS:

22% chance
Suggested:
TRODE
10% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
9% chance
Suggested:
ROULE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.8% →
TRODE 6.09 bits
9.7% →
ROUET 5.62 bits
8.6% →
ROULE 4.97 bits
6.7% →
TRIDE 5.49 bits
6.1% →
CRATE 5.48 bits
5.1% →
TRICE 4.72 bits
3.5% →
PEART 4.71 bits
3.2% →
ALTER 4.25 bits
3.1% →
COURE 4.47 bits
2.7% →
ROUET 4.64 bits

Research on LANAS

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

Optimal play

Opening with LANAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,579 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,042 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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 LAHNUHZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LANAS 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); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).