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

NANTI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Determiner

No; not any.

Alternative forms: nantee, nanty, nuntee, nunty

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 NANTI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NANTI 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 79.1% of games, misses completely in 20.9%, and leaves about 208 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,608 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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 NANTI 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.

4.31 Entropy (bits)
208 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 39% of evaluated openers
1.64 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NANTI 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#10,608 Rank among openers
Opening with NANTI 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 3.77 average. It ranks #10,608 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
751
4 guesses
1,265
5 guesses
265
6 guesses
24
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:
AINT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
24%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

NANTI can come back 73 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

496 answers
293 answers
240 answers
164 answers
139 answers
107 answers
107 answers
99 answers
72 answers
67 answers
48 answers
48 answers
40 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
11 answers
7 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1A1N1T1I1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing NANTI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NANTI:

21% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
12% chance
Suggested:
SCARE
10% chance
Suggested:
SILER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.9%
SOLER 6.00 bits
12.3%
SCARE 5.37 bits
10.1%
SILER 5.29 bits
6.9%
SOREE 5.52 bits
5.9%
SLYER 4.94 bits
4.5%
LEAST 5.03 bits
4.5%
DORSE 5.01 bits
4.2%
HEIST 4.55 bits
3.0%
SOGER 4.56 bits
2.8%
GRONE 4.62 bits

Research on NANTI

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

Optimal play

Opening with NANTI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,010 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.94 guesses at best and is rank #5,019 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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 NANTEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
NANTI 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).