5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

NATTO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A traditional Japanese food product made from fermented soybeans.

Alternative forms: nattō

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 NATTO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NATTO 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 80.5% of games, misses completely in 19.5%, and leaves about 194 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,706 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.

N___O N in the 1st position and O in the 5th position N__T_ N in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__O A in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

SLIER SCARE SOLER CRISE SILER SIREN
Words starting with N Words ending with O

First-turn measures

4.45 Entropy (bits)
194 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 48% of evaluated openers
1.50 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NATTO 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#8,706 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NATTO ranks #8,706 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
801
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
246
6 guesses
23
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
24%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

88 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

459
280
255
156
139
137
96
84
79
69
61
38
36
36
22
22
20
20
19
19
18
18
18
17
17
15
14
12
12
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NATTO:

19% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
12% chance
Suggested:
SCARE
11% chance
Suggested:
SOLER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.5% →
SLIER 6.09 bits
11.9% →
SCARE 5.40 bits
10.8% →
SOLER 5.13 bits
6.6% →
CRISE 5.02 bits
5.9% →
SILER 4.76 bits
5.8% →
SLIER 5.53 bits
4.1% →
SIREN 4.41 bits
3.6% →
SLART 4.98 bits
3.4% →
SLIDE 4.51 bits
2.9% →
CRUSE 4.58 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1A1T1T1O1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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