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

TANHS

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

No dictionary definition for TANHS is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use TANHS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How TANHS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TANHS 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 80.8% of games, misses completely in 19.2%, and leaves about 155 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,428 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe TANHS 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.

4.91 Entropy (bits)
155 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TANHS 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#1,428 Rank among openers
Opening with TANHS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,428 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
1,006
4 guesses
1,116
5 guesses
169
6 guesses
10

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ANST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
25%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

TANHS can come back 96 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

457 answers
216 answers
145 answers
140 answers
115 answers
113 answers
84 answers
74 answers
69 answers
65 answers
57 answers
51 answers
44 answers
43 answers
43 answers
41 answers
36 answers
35 answers
32 answers
31 answers
29 answers
28 answers
26 answers
23 answers
22 answers
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15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1N1H4S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing TANHS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TANHS:

19% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
9% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
6% chance
Suggested:
POIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.2% →
DROLE 6.11 bits
9.1% →
DROLE 5.45 bits
6.1% →
POIRE 5.50 bits
5.9% →
GOIER 5.26 bits
4.8% →
ROUET 5.47 bits
4.7% →
COLEY 4.51 bits
3.5% →
ROUET 4.71 bits
3.1% →
COURE 5.23 bits
2.9% →
GRICE 4.65 bits
2.7% →
PLORE 4.82 bits

Research on TANHS

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

Optimal play

Opening with TANHS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,092 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 TANHS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).