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

NGATI

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

No dictionary definition for NGATI is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use NGATI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% 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 NGATI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NGATI 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 82.2% of games, misses completely in 17.8%, and leaves about 164 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,419 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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 NGATI 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.

4.65 Entropy (bits)
164 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NGATI 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#4,419 Rank among openers
Opening with NGATI left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,419 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
906
4 guesses
1,195
5 guesses
181
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AINT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
20%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

NGATI can come back 85 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

425 answers
232 answers
209 answers
156 answers
144 answers
132 answers
93 answers
86 answers
77 answers
76 answers
69 answers
52 answers
48 answers
46 answers
36 answers
34 answers
34 answers
30 answers
30 answers
28 answers
27 answers
23 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1G2A1T1I1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing NGATI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NGATI:

18% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
10% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
9% chance
Suggested:
SPILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.8% →
SOLER 6.02 bits
9.7% →
SOREL 5.46 bits
8.8% →
SPILE 5.31 bits
6.5% →
SOREE 5.53 bits
6.0% →
CRUSE 5.03 bits
5.5% →
CORSE 5.12 bits
3.9% →
RATEL 4.71 bits
3.6% →
CRISE 4.64 bits
3.2% →
ROULE 5.35 bits
3.2% →
SONNE 4.46 bits

Research on NGATI

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

Optimal play

Opening with NGATI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,273 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,304 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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
NGATI 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).