5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

TARDY

Yes, TARDY was the Wordle answer on November 17, 2023 (Wordle #881).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtɑːdi//ˈtɑɹdi/

Adjective

Late; overdue or delayed.

“He yawned, then raised a tardy hand over his mouth.”

Adjective

Moving with a slow pace or motion; not swift.

Noun

A piece of paper given to students who are late to class.

“The teacher gave her a tardy because she did not come into the classroom until after the bell.”

Noun

An instance of a student's being marked as tardy by a teacher on the teacher's attendance sheet.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: November 17, 2023 (#881).

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

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How TARDY performs as a guess

TARDY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 84.6% of games, misses completely in 15.4%, and leaves about 136 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #833 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.

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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__D_ T in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

SLICE POISE SIENT SLOPE BRACE SOCLE
Words starting with T Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

5.00 Entropy (bits)
136 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.95 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TARDY 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
99.9% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#833 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TARDY ranks #833 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
993
4 guesses
1,131
5 guesses
152
6 guesses
10
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ART

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
36%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S P I A L
T A R D Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TARDY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

113 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

363
213
202
171
119
113
87
85
82
66
53
53
43
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30
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27
22
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14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TARDY:

15% chance
Suggested:
SLICE
9% chance
Suggested:
POISE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.4% →
SLICE 6.19 bits
9.0% →
POISE 5.22 bits
8.6% →
SLICE 5.67 bits
7.3% →
SIENT 5.42 bits
5.0% →
SLOPE 4.54 bits
4.8% →
BRACE 4.65 bits
3.7% →
SOCLE 4.69 bits
3.6% →
LEAST 5.03 bits
3.5% →
CLINE 5.01 bits
2.8% →
ROUSE 4.58 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1R1D2Y4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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