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

LARNT

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of larn

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

Use LARNT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 96.3% 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 LARNT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LARNT 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 90.6% of games, misses completely in 9.4%, and leaves about 89 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #30 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.54 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 LARNT 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.

5.49 Entropy (bits)
89 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LARNT 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.

3.54 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.66 Spread of game lengths
#30 Rank among openers
Opening with LARNT left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.66 means those games clustered within about 0.66 of a guess of the 3.54 average. It ranks #30 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
1,126
4 guesses
1,024
5 guesses
134
6 guesses
10

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ALNRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
91%
Green tile
37%
All gray
9%

Feedback distribution

LARNT can come back 110 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

224 answers
199 answers
179 answers
116 answers
111 answers
106 answers
95 answers
94 answers
63 answers
59 answers
56 answers
53 answers
49 answers
39 answers
38 answers
36 answers
36 answers
35 answers
34 answers
34 answers
33 answers
30 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1A1R1N1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing LARNT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LARNT:

9% chance
Suggested:
HOISE
8% chance
Suggested:
POISE
8% chance
Suggested:
BIOSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.4% →
HOISE 5.71 bits
8.3% →
POISE 5.22 bits
7.5% →
BIOSE 5.06 bits
4.9% →
HOISE 5.14 bits
4.7% →
SHITE 5.21 bits
4.4% →
BRACE 4.71 bits
4.0% →
SHAME 5.25 bits
3.9% →
PLACE 4.44 bits
2.6% →
SOUCE 4.86 bits
2.5% →
HOISE 4.86 bits

Research on LARNT

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

Optimal play

Opening with LARNT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #120 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 LARNT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.54, at or below the proven-optimal 3.60, 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).