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

VIVAT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈviːˌvæt//ˈvaɪˌvæt//ˈviˌvɑt/

Interjection

A cry wishing someone long life and prosperity.

Noun

An utterance of the interjection vivat.

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 VIVAT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VIVAT 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 74.0% of games, misses completely in 26.0%, and leaves about 290 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,470 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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 VIVAT 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.

3.84 Entropy (bits)
290 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 16% of evaluated openers
2.10 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How VIVAT 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#13,470 Rank among openers
Opening with VIVAT 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 3.87 average. It ranks #13,470 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
638
4 guesses
1,292
5 guesses
360
6 guesses
21
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:
AIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
27%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

VIVAT can come back 63 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

617 answers
409 answers
221 answers
161 answers
122 answers
112 answers
106 answers
87 answers
75 answers
62 answers
57 answers
49 answers
35 answers
24 answers
22 answers
20 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4I1V4A1T1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing VIVAT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VIVAT:

26% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
17% chance
Suggested:
SACRE
9% chance
Suggested:
CRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.0%
SOLER 5.93 bits
17.2%
SACRE 5.29 bits
9.3%
CRINE 5.29 bits
6.8%
SHOER 5.55 bits
5.1%
TARTE 4.85 bits
4.7%
SONDE 4.60 bits
4.5%
SENOR 4.77 bits
3.7%
SOREL 5.12 bits
3.2%
DRAIN 4.44 bits
2.6%
CRUSE 4.31 bits

Research on VIVAT

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

Optimal play

Opening with VIVAT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.89 guesses and ranks #13,716 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.04 guesses at best and is rank #6,650 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.87, at or below the proven-optimal 3.89, 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 VYVUHT. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
VIVAT 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).