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

TABIS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of tabi

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

Use TABIS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% 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 TABIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TABIS 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 82.8% of games, misses completely in 17.2%, and leaves about 148 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,672 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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 TABIS 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.

4.89 Entropy (bits)
148 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TABIS 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#2,672 Rank among openers
Opening with TABIS 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 3.63 average. It ranks #2,672 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
959
4 guesses
1,116
5 guesses
200
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
27%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

TABIS can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

410 answers
223 answers
189 answers
155 answers
130 answers
93 answers
92 answers
79 answers
73 answers
67 answers
66 answers
62 answers
46 answers
46 answers
45 answers
42 answers
36 answers
35 answers
33 answers
29 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1B3I1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing TABIS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TABIS:

17% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
9% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
8% chance
Suggested:
LINER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.2% →
DROLE 5.93 bits
9.4% →
DROLE 5.41 bits
7.9% →
LINER 5.20 bits
6.5% →
PROLE 5.25 bits
5.5% →
MORNE 4.75 bits
3.9% →
ROUET 5.20 bits
3.9% →
CHARE 4.63 bits
3.3% →
ROUET 4.62 bits
3.1% →
SPINE 4.57 bits
2.8% →
RONTE 4.18 bits

Research on TABIS

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

Optimal play

Opening with TABIS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #3,104 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.78 guesses at best and is rank #936 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).