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

STRIA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈstɹaɪə/

Noun

A stripe, usually one of a set of parallel stripes.

Noun

One of the fillets between the flutes of columns, etc.

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 STRIA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts STRIA 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 88.6% of games, misses completely in 11.4%, and leaves about 103 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #364 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

S___A S in the 1st position and A in the 5th position S__I_ S in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _T__A T in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in STRIA.

First-turn measures

All four describe STRIA 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.

5.32 Entropy (bits)
103 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 95% of evaluated openers
0.63 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How STRIA 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#364 Rank among openers
Opening with STRIA left 4 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 3.58 average. It ranks #364 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
82
3 guesses
1,010
4 guesses
1,090
5 guesses
155
6 guesses
13
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIRST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
30%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

STRIA can come back 119 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

270 answers
212 answers
162 answers
137 answers
136 answers
106 answers
88 answers
80 answers
70 answers
69 answers
56 answers
53 answers
50 answers
49 answers
43 answers
42 answers
38 answers
38 answers
30 answers
28 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1R1I1A1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Try next

CLONE DECOR CLADE CLINE TOUCH LITHE

Strategy after playing STRIA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STRIA:

11% chance
Suggested:
CLONE
9% chance
Suggested:
CLONE
7% chance
Suggested:
DECOR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.4% →
CLONE 5.90 bits
8.9% →
CLONE 5.44 bits
6.8% →
DECOR 4.84 bits
5.8% →
CLADE 4.46 bits
5.7% →
CLINE 5.15 bits
4.5% →
CLONE 4.64 bits
3.7% →
TOUCH 4.89 bits
3.4% →
CLINE 4.22 bits
2.9% →
CLONE 4.69 bits
2.9% →
LITHE 4.27 bits

Research on STRIA

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

Optimal play

Opening with STRIA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #979 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.75 guesses at best and is rank #352 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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 STREEUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, STRIA is a kind of channel or bar.

Synonyms band

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
STRIA 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).