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

INNED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of inn

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 INNED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts INNED 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 76.2% of games, misses completely in 23.8%, and leaves about 258 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,591 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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 INNED 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.

4.19 Entropy (bits)
258 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 32% of evaluated openers
1.76 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How INNED 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#9,591 Rank among openers
Opening with INNED 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 3.75 average. It ranks #9,591 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
785
4 guesses
1,235
5 guesses
267
6 guesses
16
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
26%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

INNED can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

561 answers
406 answers
237 answers
170 answers
111 answers
87 answers
67 answers
66 answers
64 answers
45 answers
36 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing INNED:

24% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
17% chance
Suggested:
SLART
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.8%
ROAST 6.01 bits
17.2%
SLART 5.94 bits
10.0%
SLART 5.38 bits
7.2%
SORAL 4.57 bits
4.7%
ROAST 5.19 bits
3.7%
STIRE 4.39 bits
2.8%
SLANT 4.64 bits
2.8%
DEARE 4.74 bits
2.7%
DOWDY 4.38 bits
1.9%
SORAL 4.40 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1N1N1E1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

The science of INNED

What game-tree analysis and word research measure about INNED — each figure with what it means.

Optimal play

Opening with INNED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses — rank #10,305 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 INNED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75 — at or below the proven-optimal 3.79 only 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) — not the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable — say it IHND. Estimated pronunciation

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

How people know it

Dominant sense
People report experiencing what it names mainly by sight (visual strength 3.8 of 5 in the Lancaster norms).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).