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

VOLTI

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

turn the page

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Italian voltare (“to turn a page”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use VOLTI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How VOLTI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VOLTI 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 80.0% of games, misses completely in 20.0%, and leaves about 194 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,535 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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 VOLTI 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.

4.46 Entropy (bits)
194 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How VOLTI 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,535 Rank among openers
Opening with VOLTI left 1 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 3.69 average. It ranks #6,535 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
869
4 guesses
1,186
5 guesses
230
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ILOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
23%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

VOLTI can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

477 answers
248 answers
218 answers
198 answers
162 answers
130 answers
105 answers
92 answers
63 answers
59 answers
53 answers
50 answers
40 answers
36 answers
35 answers
32 answers
32 answers
31 answers
21 answers
18 answers
17 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4O1L1T1I1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing VOLTI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VOLTI:

20% chance
Suggested:
SACRE
10% chance
Suggested:
RANSE
9% chance
Suggested:
SNARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.0% →
SACRE 6.17 bits
10.4% →
RANSE 5.48 bits
9.1% →
SNARE 5.23 bits
8.3% →
CARET 5.60 bits
6.8% →
CRANE 5.63 bits
5.5% →
SARED 4.55 bits
4.4% →
SHARE 4.66 bits
3.9% →
SLADE 4.46 bits
2.6% →
SENOR 4.65 bits
2.5% →
PARSE 4.70 bits

Research on VOLTI

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

Optimal play

Opening with VOLTI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #7,814 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,292 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
VOLTI 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).