5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

QANAT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley

Alternative forms: kanat, qanāt

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 QANAT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts QANAT 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 69.3% of games, misses completely in 30.7%, and leaves about 309 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,891 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

Q___T Q in the 1st position and T in the 5th position Q__A_ Q in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__T A in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SOLER SCALE SHORE GOIER SOREL SLIER
Words starting with Q Words ending with T

First-turn measures

3.88 Entropy (bits)
309 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 18% of evaluated openers
2.07 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How QANAT 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#12,891 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, QANAT ranks #12,891 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
677
4 guesses
1,298
5 guesses
313
6 guesses
27
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
34%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

60 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

723
233
209
201
143
124
79
75
70
58
57
42
33
30
27
22
20
20
16
14
12
11
11
10
10
10
8
7
7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QANAT:

31% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
10% chance
Suggested:
SCALE
9% chance
Suggested:
SHORE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.7% →
SOLER 5.94 bits
9.9% →
SCALE 5.21 bits
8.9% →
SHORE 5.46 bits
8.5% →
GOIER 5.24 bits
6.1% →
SOREL 4.80 bits
5.3% →
SLIER 5.27 bits
3.4% →
GRICE 4.32 bits
3.2% →
CLEAR 4.67 bits
3.0% →
GRISE 4.55 bits
2.5% →
TRITE 4.10 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10A1N1A1T1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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