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

MANAT

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /mæˈnæt//mɑˈnɑt//məˈ-/

Noun

The basic unit of currency for Azerbaijan; symbol ₼; subdivided into 100 qapik.

Noun

The basic unit of currency for Turkmenistan; subdivided into 100 tennesi.

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Azerbaijani manat and Turkmen manat, both from Russian моне́та (monéta), from Polish moneta, from Latin monēta. Doublet of money and mint.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use MANAT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.1% 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 MANAT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MANAT 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 73.8% of games, misses completely in 26.2%, and leaves about 237 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,873 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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 MANAT 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.

4.41 Entropy (bits)
237 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MANAT 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,873 Rank among openers
Opening with MANAT left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #6,873 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
850
4 guesses
1,214
5 guesses
213
6 guesses
20

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
35%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

MANAT can come back 87 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

625 answers
196 answers
190 answers
187 answers
120 answers
117 answers
83 answers
71 answers
66 answers
65 answers
55 answers
53 answers
41 answers
41 answers
37 answers
33 answers
31 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1N1A1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing MANAT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MANAT:

26% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
8% chance
Suggested:
SCORE
8% chance
Suggested:
GOIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.2% →
SOLER 5.98 bits
8.2% →
SCORE 5.19 bits
8.0% →
GOIER 5.25 bits
7.8% →
SHORE 5.46 bits
5.0% →
SLYER 4.90 bits
4.9% →
SLIER 5.28 bits
3.5% →
ROULE 4.92 bits
3.0% →
GRICE 4.32 bits
2.8% →
CLEAR 4.67 bits
2.7% →
GRISE 4.50 bits

Research on MANAT

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

Optimal play

Opening with MANAT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,738 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 MANAT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MANAT 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).