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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 310 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener 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.
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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

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in QANAT.

First-turn measures

All four describe QANAT 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.

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

As an opening guess: previous 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
99.83% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#12,891 Rank among openers
Opening with QANAT left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.84 average. It 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 (3.46 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

QANAT can come back 60 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

728 answers
234 answers
209 answers
203 answers
143 answers
124 answers
80 answers
75 answers
70 answers
58 answers
58 answers
42 answers
33 answers
33 answers
27 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
16 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers

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.

Try next

SOLER SCALE SHORE GOIER SLYER SLIER

Strategy after playing QANAT

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

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 5.23 bits
8.8% →
SHORE 5.46 bits
8.6% →
GOIER 5.24 bits
6.0% →
SLYER 4.95 bits
5.2% →
SLIER 5.27 bits
3.4% →
GRICE 4.33 bits
3.2% →
CLEAR 4.67 bits
2.9% →
GRISE 4.55 bits
2.4% →
SLATE 4.63 bits

Research on QANAT

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

Optimal play

Opening with QANAT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.88 guesses and ranks #13,352 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 QANAT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84, at or below the proven-optimal 3.88, 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 KANUHT. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
QANAT 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), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).