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

TAIRA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of tayra.

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 TAIRA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TAIRA 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 83.6% of games, misses completely in 16.4%, and leaves about 144 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,117 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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 TAIRA 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)
144 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 77% of evaluated openers
1.06 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TAIRA 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,117 Rank among openers
Opening with TAIRA left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #5,117 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
918
4 guesses
1,124
5 guesses
231
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
3 vowels
Common:
AIRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
35%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

TAIRA can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

390 answers
230 answers
185 answers
139 answers
128 answers
103 answers
103 answers
100 answers
83 answers
62 answers
59 answers
56 answers
50 answers
48 answers
45 answers
41 answers
39 answers
36 answers
31 answers
27 answers
27 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1I1R1A1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Strategy after playing TAIRA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TAIRA:

16% chance
Suggested:
CLOSE
10% chance
Suggested:
SOUCE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.4%
CLOSE 5.92 bits
9.7%
SOUCE 5.23 bits
7.8%
SLANE 5.42 bits
5.9%
SIDLE 4.92 bits
5.4%
SOULY 5.16 bits
4.3%
CLONE 4.97 bits
4.3%
CEDAR 4.33 bits
4.2%
SOCLE 4.70 bits
3.5%
LEAST 4.95 bits
2.6%
LITHE 4.13 bits

Research on TAIRA

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

Optimal play

Opening with TAIRA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,817 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,110 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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

Three syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it TAHIHRUH.

Rhymes with MBIRA

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TAIRA 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).