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

TAITS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of tait

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 TAITS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TAITS 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 79.7% of games, misses completely in 20.3%, and leaves about 182 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,547 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.
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Useful pattern pages

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

T___S T in the 1st position and S in the 5th position T__T_ T in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position TA_TS T in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, T in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TAITS 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.

4.66 Entropy (bits)
182 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 62% of evaluated openers
1.29 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TAITS 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#6,547 Rank among openers
Opening with TAITS left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,547 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
876
4 guesses
1,161
5 guesses
230
6 guesses
24
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
2 vowels
Common:
AIST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
34%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

TAITS can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

481 answers
267 answers
162 answers
162 answers
151 answers
109 answers
96 answers
74 answers
65 answers
56 answers
50 answers
49 answers
44 answers
42 answers
40 answers
37 answers
35 answers
34 answers
29 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1I1T1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Try next

DROLE PROLE LINER MORNE CRONE CHARE

Strategy after playing TAITS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TAITS:

20% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
11% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
7% chance
Suggested:
PROLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.3% →
DROLE 5.92 bits
11.2% →
DROLE 5.45 bits
6.8% →
PROLE 5.24 bits
6.8% →
LINER 5.26 bits
6.4% →
MORNE 4.73 bits
4.6% →
CRONE 4.89 bits
4.0% →
CHARE 4.68 bits
3.1% →
COURT 5.16 bits
2.7% →
CRUET 4.50 bits
2.4% →
BLARE 4.57 bits

Research on TAITS

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

Optimal play

Opening with TAITS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #7,917 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 TAITS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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

One syllable Say it TAYTS. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.