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TAFFY

Yes, TAFFY was the Wordle answer on June 10, 2025 (Wordle #1452).

As an opener, it rules out about 85.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtæ.fi/

Noun

A soft, chewy candy made from boiled sugar, molasses, or corn syrup and butter.

Noun

Flattery.

Alternative forms: toffee

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: June 10, 2025 (#1452).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 10, 2025 (#1452).

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

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How TAFFY performs as a guess

TAFFY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 70.1% of games, misses completely in 29.9%, and leaves about 334 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,187 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

T___Y T in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position T__F_ T in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TAFFY 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.

3.69 Entropy (bits)
334 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TAFFY 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#13,187 Rank among openers
Opening with TAFFY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.85 average. It ranks #13,187 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
649
4 guesses
1,321
5 guesses
334
6 guesses
17
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
32%
All gray
30%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C L I N T
T A B B Y
T A F F Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TAFFY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TAFFY can come back 61 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

711 answers
366 answers
248 answers
181 answers
147 answers
121 answers
85 answers
62 answers
53 answers
49 answers
36 answers
32 answers
31 answers
27 answers
27 answers
22 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1F4F4Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

RIONE LEARN ROUET SOLDE SIREN LEAST

Strategy after playing TAFFY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TAFFY:

30% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
15% chance
Suggested:
LEARN
10% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.9% →
RIONE 6.03 bits
15.4% →
LEARN 5.32 bits
10.4% →
ROUET 5.44 bits
7.6% →
SOLDE 4.69 bits
6.2% →
SIREN 4.83 bits
5.1% →
LEAST 5.00 bits
3.6% →
NOIRE 4.99 bits
2.6% →
URINE 4.91 bits
2.2% →
SIDLE 3.65 bits
2.1% →
SHULE 4.03 bits

Research on TAFFY

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

Optimal play

Opening with TAFFY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.89 guesses and ranks #13,566 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.04 guesses at best and is rank #6,683 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.85, at or below the proven-optimal 3.89, 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 TAFEE.

Rhymes with DAFFY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TAFFY is a kind of candy.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TAFFY sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with taste (4.3 of 5).

In a sentence

This is salt water taffy.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Do you like saltwater taffy?
© tatoeba.org contributor Eccles17 (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).