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

TALLS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of tall

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 TALLS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TALLS 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 78.6% of games, misses completely in 21.4%, and leaves about 188 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,673 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___S T in the 1st position and S in the 5th position T__L_ T in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TALLS 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.

4.59 Entropy (bits)
188 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 58% of evaluated openers
1.36 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TALLS 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#4,673 Rank among openers
Opening with TALLS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,673 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
925
4 guesses
1,176
5 guesses
195
6 guesses
13
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:
ALST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
29%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

TALLS can come back 86 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

509 answers
194 answers
192 answers
165 answers
142 answers
129 answers
101 answers
98 answers
80 answers
76 answers
54 answers
43 answers
43 answers
37 answers
31 answers
30 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1L1L1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

RIONE DRONE NOIRE ROUET GOIER MORNE

Strategy after playing TALLS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TALLS:

21% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
8% chance
Suggested:
DRONE
8% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.4% →
RIONE 6.15 bits
8.2% →
DRONE 5.60 bits
8.1% →
NOIRE 5.44 bits
7.0% →
ROUET 5.36 bits
6.0% →
GOIER 4.99 bits
5.4% →
MORNE 4.83 bits
4.3% →
ROUET 4.87 bits
4.1% →
CRANE 4.63 bits
3.4% →
PHARE 4.69 bits
3.2% →
RIONE 4.92 bits

Research on TALLS

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

Optimal play

Opening with TALLS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,646 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 TALLS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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 TAWLZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TALLS is a kind of size.

Synonyms marvelous marvellous improbable long hard difficult

Opposites SHORT easy credible

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TALLS 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.6 of 5).

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