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TEACH

Yes, TEACH was the Wordle answer on September 22, 2024 (Wordle #1191).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtiːt͡ʃ/[ˈtʰɪi̯t͡ʃ]

Verb

To pass on knowledge to.

“Can you teach me to sew? Can you teach sewing to me?”

Verb

To pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.

“She used to teach at university.”

Noun

teacher

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: September 22, 2024 (#1191).

See the full page for that puzzle: September 22, 2024 (#1191).

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

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How TEACH performs as a guess

TEACH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 86.8% of games, misses completely in 13.2%, and leaves about 126 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,365 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

T___H T in the 1st position and H in the 5th position T__C_ T in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _E__H E in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TEACH 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.

5.25 Entropy (bits)
126 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 93% of evaluated openers
0.70 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TEACH 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#1,365 Rank among openers
Opening with TEACH left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,365 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
988
4 guesses
1,096
5 guesses
185
6 guesses
12
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:
AET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
33%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L E A N S
B E A U T
T E A C H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TEACH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TEACH can come back 128 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

313 answers
294 answers
189 answers
126 answers
121 answers
97 answers
77 answers
73 answers
68 answers
65 answers
45 answers
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40 answers
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Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1E1A1C3H4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SOLID RIONE RAYON LARGE SNORT SLEER

Strategy after playing TEACH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TEACH:

13% chance
Suggested:
SOLID
12% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
8% chance
Suggested:
RAYON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.2% →
SOLID 5.54 bits
12.4% →
RIONE 5.30 bits
8.0% →
RAYON 5.05 bits
5.3% →
LARGE 4.59 bits
5.1% →
SNORT 5.19 bits
4.1% →
SLEER 4.35 bits
3.2% →
SIREE 4.88 bits
3.1% →
SLAIN 4.25 bits
2.9% →
SOILY 4.91 bits
2.7% →
SAULT 4.42 bits

Research on TEACH

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

Optimal play

Opening with TEACH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,681 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 TEACH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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

One syllable Say it TEECH.

Rhymes with REACH BEACH PEACH BEECH LEACH

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TEACH is a kind of inform or change.

Synonyms LEARN instruct

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TEACH sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 47 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 42 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (3.4 of 5).

In a sentence

Teach me to do that.
© tatoeba.org contributor Native77 (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Do you like to teach?
© tatoeba.org contributor Miktsoanit (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).