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

TRANT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɹænt/

Verb

To walk; go about.

Verb

To traffic in an itinerant manner; to peddle.

Noun

A turn; trick; stratagem.

Alternative forms: traunt

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 TRANT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TRANT 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 82.3% of games, misses completely in 17.7%, and leaves about 151 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,532 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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 TRANT 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.

4.91 Entropy (bits)
151 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 78% of evaluated openers
1.04 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TRANT 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#2,532 Rank among openers
Opening with TRANT left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,532 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
973
4 guesses
1,109
5 guesses
191
6 guesses
16
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
1 vowels
Common:
ANRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
38%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

TRANT can come back 103 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

421 answers
222 answers
192 answers
144 answers
117 answers
106 answers
96 answers
94 answers
76 answers
74 answers
67 answers
45 answers
40 answers
37 answers
35 answers
35 answers
30 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1A1N1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing TRANT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TRANT:

18% chance
Suggested:
SOCLE
9% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
8% chance
Suggested:
SOLDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.7%
SOCLE 5.96 bits
9.4%
SOREL 5.06 bits
8.1%
SOLDE 5.19 bits
6.1%
MOILE 5.07 bits
4.9%
PARER 4.49 bits
4.5%
SLICE 5.21 bits
4.0%
SPICE 4.76 bits
4.0%
SOCLE 5.02 bits
3.2%
LANCE 4.54 bits
3.1%
SHIEL 5.12 bits

Research on TRANT

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

Optimal play

Opening with TRANT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,970 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.84 guesses at best and is rank #2,663 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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

One syllable Say it TRANT.

Rhymes with PLANT GRANT CHANT SLANT SCANT

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TRANT sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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).