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

TASSE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tæs/

Noun

A piece of armor for the hips and thighs: one of a set of plates (each being of one piece or segmented) hanging from the bottom of the breastplate or from faulds.

Alternative forms: tace

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 TASSE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TASSE 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 85.0% of games, misses completely in 15.0%, and leaves about 134 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,860 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

T___E T in the 1st position and E in the 5th position T__S_ T in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TASSE 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.

4.99 Entropy (bits)
134 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.96 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TASSE 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#8,860 Rank among openers
Opening with TASSE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.74 average. It ranks #8,860 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
779
4 guesses
1,253
5 guesses
241
6 guesses
19
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
2 vowels
Common:
AEST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
40%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

TASSE can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

357 answers
251 answers
184 answers
144 answers
112 answers
109 answers
95 answers
83 answers
74 answers
64 answers
51 answers
48 answers
43 answers
41 answers
39 answers
39 answers
38 answers
37 answers
32 answers
29 answers
28 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1S1S1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Try next

COULD OLDER ACORN GOIER NORTH RANDY

Strategy after playing TASSE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TASSE:

15% chance
Suggested:
COULD
11% chance
Suggested:
OLDER
8% chance
Suggested:
ACORN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.0% →
COULD 5.57 bits
10.6% →
OLDER 5.02 bits
7.8% →
ACORN 4.95 bits
6.1% →
GOIER 4.43 bits
4.7% →
NORTH 4.87 bits
4.6% →
RANDY 4.05 bits
4.0% →
SCION 4.48 bits
3.5% →
RENAL 4.83 bits
3.1% →
DETER 4.47 bits
2.7% →
GLARE 3.74 bits

Research on TASSE

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

Optimal play

Opening with TASSE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,839 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 TASSE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74; proven optimal play reaches 3.73. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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

One syllable Say it TAS. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TASSE is a kind of scale.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TASSE 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).