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

TADAH

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

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

Meaning and pronunciation

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

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Use TADAH in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 88.8% 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 TADAH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TADAH 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 71.7% of games, misses completely in 28.3%, and leaves about 267 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,822 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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 TADAH 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.

4.25 Entropy (bits)
267 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TADAH 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#7,822 Rank among openers
Opening with TADAH 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 3.72 average. It ranks #7,822 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
840
4 guesses
1,225
5 guesses
225
6 guesses
19

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
32%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

TADAH can come back 78 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

674 answers
228 answers
209 answers
151 answers
147 answers
93 answers
82 answers
76 answers
57 answers
55 answers
44 answers
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40 answers
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33 answers
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26 answers
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22 answers
18 answers
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14 answers
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12 answers
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10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1D2A1H4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing TADAH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TADAH:

28% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
10% chance
Suggested:
SIREN
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.3% →
RIONE 5.97 bits
9.6% →
SIREN 5.56 bits
8.8% →
SLANE 5.41 bits
6.3% →
DINER 5.40 bits
6.2% →
SLYER 4.95 bits
3.9% →
SCIRE 5.30 bits
3.4% →
SENOR 4.73 bits
3.2% →
SENOR 4.75 bits
2.4% →
PRONE 4.72 bits
2.3% →
CLONE 4.29 bits

Research on TADAH

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

Optimal play

Opening with TADAH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,701 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 TADAH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, 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
TADAH 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).