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TARSI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of tarsus

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 TARSI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TARSI 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 88.6% of games, misses completely in 11.4%, and leaves about 95 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #177 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.56 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

T___I T in the 1st position and I in the 5th position T__S_ T in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _A__I A in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TARSI 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.

5.42 Entropy (bits)
95 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.53 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TARSI 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.

3.56 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#177 Rank among openers
Opening with TARSI left 4 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 3.56 average. It ranks #177 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
1,050
4 guesses
1,066
5 guesses
150
6 guesses
11
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIRST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
30%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

TARSI can come back 115 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

270 answers
170 answers
162 answers
144 answers
112 answers
93 answers
89 answers
83 answers
71 answers
66 answers
56 answers
56 answers
51 answers
49 answers
49 answers
43 answers
37 answers
37 answers
36 answers
36 answers
30 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1R1S1I1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Try next

CLONE DECOR BEARD PRIED LITHE CLOUT

Strategy after playing TARSI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TARSI:

11% chance
Suggested:
CLONE
7% chance
Suggested:
CLONE
7% chance
Suggested:
DECOR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.4% →
CLONE 5.90 bits
7.2% →
CLONE 5.23 bits
6.8% →
DECOR 4.84 bits
6.1% →
CLONE 5.30 bits
4.7% →
BEARD 4.79 bits
3.9% →
CLONE 4.49 bits
3.7% →
PRIED 4.37 bits
3.5% →
CLONE 4.76 bits
3.0% →
LITHE 4.29 bits
2.8% →
CLOUT 4.79 bits

Research on TARSI

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

Optimal play

Opening with TARSI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.61 guesses and ranks #424 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.73 guesses at best and is rank #176 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.56, at or below the proven-optimal 3.61, 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 TAHRSEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TARSI is a kind of structure.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TARSI 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.

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).