5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

WANTA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Contraction

Eye dialect spelling of want to.

Alternative forms: wanna

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 WANTA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WANTA 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 71.8% of games, misses completely in 28.2%, and leaves about 279 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,535 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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.

W___A W in the 1st position and A in the 5th position W__T_ W in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

SOLER SCARE ROUET GOIER SOREL LEAST
Words starting with W Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.08 Entropy (bits)
279 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 27% of evaluated openers
1.87 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WANTA 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#10,535 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WANTA ranks #10,535 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
750
4 guesses
1,263
5 guesses
268
6 guesses
23
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)
72%
Green tile
27%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

78 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

664
266
244
170
136
107
78
72
70
58
41
35
35
27
26
23
22
19
18
18
16
15
14
14
10
10
10
9
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WANTA:

28% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
11% chance
Suggested:
SCARE
10% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.2% →
SOLER 5.90 bits
11.3% →
SCARE 5.36 bits
10.3% →
ROUET 5.49 bits
7.2% →
GOIER 5.24 bits
5.8% →
SOREL 4.86 bits
4.5% →
LEAST 4.96 bits
3.3% →
GRISE 4.66 bits
3.1% →
COURE 4.33 bits
3.0% →
SHORE 4.72 bits
2.5% →
ROUET 4.67 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4A1N1T1A1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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