5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

TAWIE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Docile or tractable to the extent of allowing itself to be handled without complaint.

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 TAWIE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TAWIE 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 89.0% of games, misses completely in 11.0%, and leaves about 102 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,936 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___E T in the 1st position and E in the 5th position T__I_ T in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SURLY SOLER SNARL SONLY ROUSE SHORT
Words starting with T Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.22 Entropy (bits)
102 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 93% of evaluated openers
0.73 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TAWIE 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#5,936 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TAWIE ranks #5,936 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
889
4 guesses
1,143
5 guesses
237
6 guesses
19
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
40%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

260
186
175
135
130
105
93
85
80
77
67
67
66
59
43
40
38
34
34
33
31
27
25
24
21
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18
17
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15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TAWIE:

11% chance
Suggested:
SURLY
8% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
7% chance
Suggested:
SNARL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.0% →
SURLY 5.42 bits
7.9% →
SOLER 4.96 bits
7.4% →
SNARL 5.06 bits
5.7% →
SONLY 4.91 bits
5.5% →
ROUSE 4.59 bits
4.5% →
SONLY 4.55 bits
3.9% →
SHORT 5.00 bits
3.6% →
RENAL 4.70 bits
3.4% →
SETER 4.85 bits
3.3% →
SLART 3.76 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1W4I1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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