5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

LANTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% of possible answers.

Open Solver with LANTS Open Word Finder

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of lant

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 LANTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LANTS 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 86.2% of games, misses completely in 13.8%, and leaves about 111 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #232 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 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.

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__T_ L in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

DECOR ROULE ROUET BRACE POIRE GOIER
Words starting with L Words ending with S

First-turn measures

5.19 Entropy (bits)
111 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 92% of evaluated openers
0.76 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LANTS 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.

3.57 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#232 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LANTS ranks #232 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
1,054
4 guesses
1,080
5 guesses
139
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ALNST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
26%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

105 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

326
171
139
138
136
118
99
88
75
65
61
51
49
48
46
46
35
35
34
30
30
29
29
29
22
20
20
19
18
17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LANTS:

14% chance
Suggested:
DECOR
7% chance
Suggested:
ROULE
6% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.8% →
DECOR 5.66 bits
7.3% →
ROULE 4.92 bits
5.9% →
ROUET 5.47 bits
5.9% →
BRACE 5.40 bits
5.8% →
POIRE 5.42 bits
5.0% →
GOIER 5.29 bits
4.2% →
FLARE 4.42 bits
3.7% →
COREY 4.56 bits
3.2% →
ROUET 4.65 bits
2.8% →
PHARE 4.68 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1A1N1T1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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