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

ORANT

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of orans.

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

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin orans, orantis, noun use of the present participle of orare (“pray”). By surface analysis, Latin or- + -ant. Doublet of orans.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use ORANT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 96.3% 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 ORANT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ORANT 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 88.9% of games, misses completely in 11.1%, and leaves about 89 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #56 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.55 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 ORANT 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.

5.53 Entropy (bits)
89 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ORANT 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.

3.55 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#56 Rank among openers
Opening with ORANT left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.55 average. It ranks #56 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
74
3 guesses
1,098
4 guesses
1,013
5 guesses
156
6 guesses
11

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
35%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

ORANT can come back 125 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

265 answers
154 answers
150 answers
142 answers
100 answers
91 answers
88 answers
88 answers
76 answers
62 answers
60 answers
59 answers
54 answers
53 answers
46 answers
45 answers
39 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
19 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1R1A1N1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing ORANT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ORANT:

11% chance
Suggested:
SPILE
6% chance
Suggested:
SOOLE
6% chance
Suggested:
SAMEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.1% →
SPILE 5.93 bits
6.5% →
SOOLE 5.17 bits
6.3% →
SAMEL 5.13 bits
6.0% →
SIREE 5.06 bits
4.2% →
SLICE 5.19 bits
3.8% →
PARLE 4.43 bits
3.7% →
SHITE 5.10 bits
3.7% →
SIDLE 4.84 bits
3.2% →
ROWER 4.18 bits
2.6% →
TASTE 4.48 bits

Research on ORANT

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

Optimal play

Opening with ORANT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #205 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 ORANT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.55, at or below the proven-optimal 3.60, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).