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TACIT

Yes, TACIT was the Wordle answer on February 20, 2022 (Wordle #246).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtæsɪt/

Adjective

Implied, but not made explicit, especially through silence.

“tacit consent”

Adjective

Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: February 20, 2022 (#246).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How TACIT performs as a guess

TACIT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 78.2% of games, misses completely in 21.8%, and leaves about 204 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,061 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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.

T___T T in the 1st position and T in the 5th position T__I_ T in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _A__T A in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SOLER LEARN RINSE SOREL CRONE SHARE
Words starting with T Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.55 Entropy (bits)
204 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TACIT 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#7,061 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TACIT ranks #7,061 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
882
4 guesses
1,139
5 guesses
250
6 guesses
23

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
34%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C L I N T
T A C I T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TACIT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

94 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

515
285
242
149
124
91
74
63
53
50
47
47
42
42
40
36
29
29
24
19
18
17
17
16
16
15
14
12
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TACIT:

22% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
12% chance
Suggested:
LEARN
10% chance
Suggested:
RINSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.8% →
SOLER 5.98 bits
12.1% →
LEARN 5.37 bits
10.3% →
RINSE 5.35 bits
6.3% →
SOREL 4.76 bits
5.3% →
CRONE 5.36 bits
3.9% →
SOREL 5.16 bits
3.1% →
SHARE 4.59 bits
2.7% →
SOREL 5.07 bits
2.2% →
SLAKE 4.50 bits
2.1% →
SPALE 4.51 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1C3I1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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