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

TEENE

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

No dictionary definition for TEENE is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 89.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 TEENE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TEENE 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 72.9% of games, misses completely in 27.1%, and leaves about 257 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,435 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe TEENE 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.

4.22 Entropy (bits)
257 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 34% of evaluated openers
1.72 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TEENE 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,435 Rank among openers
Opening with TEENE left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.82 average. It ranks #12,435 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
687
4 guesses
1,277
5 guesses
316
6 guesses
24
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

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ENT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
43%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

TEENE can come back 73 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

644 answers
244 answers
219 answers
158 answers
145 answers
94 answers
82 answers
68 answers
59 answers
52 answers
51 answers
45 answers
43 answers
37 answers
36 answers
30 answers
28 answers
28 answers
25 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1E1E1N1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing TEENE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TEENE:

27% chance
Suggested:
SORAL
10% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
9% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.1%
SORAL 5.87 bits
10.3%
ROAST 5.35 bits
9.2%
SORAL 4.91 bits
6.7%
CAIRN 5.11 bits
6.1%
SOLAR 4.60 bits
4.0%
SOILY 4.30 bits
3.5%
CLARY 5.10 bits
2.9%
SORAL 4.47 bits
2.5%
LAIRY 3.88 bits
2.2%
SORAL 4.18 bits

Research on TEENE

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

Optimal play

Opening with TEENE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,541 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.01 guesses at best and is rank #6,305 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.82, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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 TEEN. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.