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

LENTI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A town in Zala County, Hungary.

Proper noun

A surname.

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 LENTI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LENTI 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 88.2% of games, misses completely in 11.8%, and leaves about 108 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,270 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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 LENTI 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.

5.20 Entropy (bits)
108 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 92% of evaluated openers
0.75 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LENTI 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#1,270 Rank among openers
Opening with LENTI left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,270 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
986
4 guesses
1,129
5 guesses
149
6 guesses
20
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EILNT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
23%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

LENTI can come back 103 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

280 answers
247 answers
154 answers
120 answers
107 answers
97 answers
88 answers
85 answers
78 answers
72 answers
71 answers
67 answers
60 answers
51 answers
40 answers
38 answers
34 answers
33 answers
32 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
25 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1E1N1T1I1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing LENTI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LENTI:

12% chance
Suggested:
CAROM
10% chance
Suggested:
AROSE
6% chance
Suggested:
SOAPY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.8%
CAROM 5.81 bits
10.4%
AROSE 5.35 bits
6.5%
SOAPY 5.00 bits
5.1%
COURT 5.41 bits
4.5%
CRISP 4.85 bits
4.1%
BLASE 4.52 bits
3.7%
SAREE 4.94 bits
3.6%
PRONG 4.89 bits
3.3%
PRIDE 4.63 bits
3.0%
ROAST 4.60 bits

Research on LENTI

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

Optimal play

Opening with LENTI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,909 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.77 guesses at best and is rank #562 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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 LEHNTEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LENTI 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).