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

NEATO

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈnitoʊ/[ˈniɾoʊ̯]

Interjection

Neat (in the sense of being excellent or desirable).

“Oh, neato! My car is fixed.”

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

Use NEATO in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 96.5% of possible answers.

Open Solver with NEATO Open Word Finder

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.

NEATO in Connections

1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How NEATO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NEATO 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 91.7% of games, misses completely in 8.3%, and leaves about 84 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,323 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.
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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 _E__O E in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in NEATO.

First-turn measures

All four describe NEATO 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.

5.43 Entropy (bits)
84 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NEATO 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#2,323 Rank among openers
Opening with NEATO left 2 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 3.63 average. It ranks #2,323 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
75
3 guesses
943
4 guesses
1,136
5 guesses
184
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AENOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
92%
Green tile
29%
All gray
8%

Feedback distribution

NEATO can come back 106 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

198 answers
189 answers
146 answers
122 answers
109 answers
108 answers
89 answers
80 answers
73 answers
72 answers
72 answers
63 answers
63 answers
61 answers
58 answers
54 answers
48 answers
41 answers
39 answers
34 answers
31 answers
30 answers
29 answers
26 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1E1A1T1O1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

SLIMY SLIER COLOR SALAD LAGER WORSE

Strategy after playing NEATO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NEATO:

8% chance
Suggested:
SLIMY
8% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
6% chance
Suggested:
COLOR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

8.3% →
SLIMY 5.53 bits
7.9% →
SLIER 5.37 bits
6.1% →
COLOR 4.89 bits
5.1% →
SALAD 4.85 bits
4.6% →
LAGER 4.57 bits
4.5% →
WORSE 4.34 bits
3.7% →
CLASH 4.54 bits
3.4% →
SLEER 4.39 bits
3.1% →
SIREE 4.97 bits
3.0% →
SHIRT 4.95 bits

Research on NEATO

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

Optimal play

Opening with NEATO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,039 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 NEATO can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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
NEATO sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).