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

NITTO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.5% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A surname from Italian.

Alternative forms: Nitti

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 NITTO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NITTO 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 74.4% of games, misses completely in 25.6%, and leaves about 249 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,268 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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 NITTO 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.

4.24 Entropy (bits)
249 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 35% of evaluated openers
1.71 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NITTO 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#9,268 Rank among openers
Opening with NITTO left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,268 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
800
4 guesses
1,218
5 guesses
254
6 guesses
27
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:
INOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
20%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

NITTO can come back 84 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

607 answers
301 answers
189 answers
160 answers
160 answers
106 answers
86 answers
82 answers
71 answers
60 answers
45 answers
42 answers
41 answers
35 answers
26 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1I1T1T1O1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing NITTO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NITTO:

26% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
13% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
CARLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.6%
CARLE 6.19 bits
12.7%
CARLE 5.22 bits
8.0%
CARLE 5.48 bits
6.7%
SERAL 5.55 bits
6.7%
CARLE 5.18 bits
4.5%
SARED 4.70 bits
3.6%
SPALE 4.45 bits
3.5%
SARGE 4.55 bits
3.0%
ROOST 4.57 bits
2.5%
SLIER 4.64 bits

Research on NITTO

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

Optimal play

Opening with NITTO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,244 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 NITTO can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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 NIHTOH.

Rhymes with DITTO

Familiarity and learning

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