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

INTRA

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

No dictionary definition for INTRA is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it IHNTRAH.

Use INTRA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.2% 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 INTRA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts INTRA 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 88.4% of games, misses completely in 11.6%, and leaves about 115 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,208 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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 INTRA 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.

5.09 Entropy (bits)
115 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How INTRA 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#1,208 Rank among openers
Opening with INTRA left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #1,208 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
1,019
4 guesses
1,084
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AINRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
18%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

INTRA can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

276 answers
225 answers
192 answers
142 answers
135 answers
105 answers
103 answers
99 answers
79 answers
77 answers
74 answers
69 answers
62 answers
39 answers
37 answers
36 answers
34 answers
30 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
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18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1N1T1R1A1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing INTRA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing INTRA:

12% chance
Suggested:
CLOSE
9% chance
Suggested:
SCALE
8% chance
Suggested:
SOUCE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.6% →
CLOSE 5.96 bits
9.4% →
SCALE 5.49 bits
8.1% →
SOUCE 5.32 bits
6.0% →
SIDLE 5.37 bits
5.7% →
CARLE 4.54 bits
4.4% →
SABLE 5.07 bits
4.3% →
SHULE 5.31 bits
4.2% →
COSEY 4.96 bits
3.3% →
SPICE 4.38 bits
3.2% →
SLICE 4.43 bits

Research on INTRA

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

Optimal play

Opening with INTRA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,925 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 INTRA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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
INTRA sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

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).