5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

TANSY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtanzi//ˈtæn.zi/

Noun

A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum, especially Tanacetum vulgare.

Noun

A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs (including tansy), baked with butter in a shallow dish. "Originally flavoured with tansy, but by Pepys's time generally having spinach as its predominant flavouring."

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 TANSY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TANSY 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 83.7% of games, misses completely in 16.3%, and leaves about 130 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #720 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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.

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__S_ T in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

DROLE ROUET GOIER POIRE BLARE ROULE
Words starting with T Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

5.10 Entropy (bits)
130 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TANSY 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#720 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TANSY ranks #720 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
1,010
4 guesses
1,123
5 guesses
140
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ANST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
39%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

115 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

384
216
136
126
126
118
88
70
68
67
62
55
54
50
42
36
34
33
33
31
27
25
22
22
22
18
18
17
16
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TANSY:

16% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
9% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
6% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.3% →
DROLE 5.99 bits
9.2% →
DROLE 5.46 bits
5.8% →
ROUET 5.50 bits
5.3% →
DROLE 4.90 bits
5.3% →
GOIER 5.32 bits
5.0% →
POIRE 5.15 bits
3.7% →
GOIER 4.35 bits
3.0% →
BLARE 4.79 bits
2.9% →
ROULE 4.35 bits
2.8% →
GRICE 4.66 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1N1S1Y4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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