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.

As an opener, it rules out about 96.3% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of orans.

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.

Why this solver ranks ORANT highly

This solver ranks ORANT highly because it separates the possible answers well, even though it is not itself a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 89.0% of games, misses completely in 11.0%, and leaves about 88 possible answers on average.

In the current bounded six-turn policy, it ranks #71 of 182 evaluated openers; exact misses rank first, then average guesses among wins.

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.

5.54 Entropy (bits)
88 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 99% of evaluated openers
0.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

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
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

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:

261 answers
153 answers
150 answers
141 answers
100 answers
90 answers
88 answers
88 answers
76 answers
62 answers
60 answers
58 answers
54 answers
53 answers
46 answers
45 answers
39 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 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.

11.0%
SPILE 5.92 bits
6.4%
SOOLE 5.17 bits
6.3%
SAMEL 5.13 bits
5.9%
SIREE 5.05 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it AWRUHNT. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.