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

TAMMY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtami/

Noun

A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.

Verb

To strain through a tammy.

Noun

A tam o’shanter hat.

Alternative forms: tamin, tamine, taminy

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 TAMMY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TAMMY 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 71.0% of games, misses completely in 29.0%, and leaves about 308 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,572 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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__M_ T in the 1st position and M 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 TAMMY.

First-turn measures

All four describe TAMMY 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.

3.90 Entropy (bits)
308 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 18% of evaluated openers
2.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TAMMY 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,572 Rank among openers
Opening with TAMMY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,572 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
723
4 guesses
1,262
5 guesses
298
6 guesses
23
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)
71%
Green tile
34%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

TAMMY can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

688 answers
333 answers
254 answers
170 answers
126 answers
122 answers
77 answers
55 answers
50 answers
50 answers
41 answers
36 answers
35 answers
30 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
12 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1M3M3Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

SLIER LEARN SHIER SOLDE LEAST SOREL

Strategy after playing TAMMY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TAMMY:

29% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
14% chance
Suggested:
LEARN
11% chance
Suggested:
SHIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.0% →
SLIER 6.05 bits
14.0% →
LEARN 5.34 bits
10.7% →
SHIER 5.53 bits
7.2% →
SOLDE 4.65 bits
5.3% →
LEAST 4.97 bits
5.1% →
SOREL 4.95 bits
3.2% →
URINE 5.03 bits
2.3% →
NOIRE 5.08 bits
2.1% →
SIDER 3.54 bits
2.1% →
CLINE 4.09 bits

Research on TAMMY

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

Optimal play

Opening with TAMMY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,222 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.98 guesses at best and is rank #5,942 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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 TAMEE.

Rhymes with SAMMY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TAMMY is a kind of material or cap.

Synonyms tam

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TAMMY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

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).