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TEETH

Yes, TEETH was the Wordle answer on September 17, 2025 (Wordle #1551).

As an opener, it rules out about 85.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtiːθ//ˈtiːf//ˈtiθ/

Noun

plural of tooth

Noun

Unpleasant oral sex

“She gives straight teeth.”

Verb

Dated spelling of teethe (“to grow teeth”).

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 17, 2025 (#1551).

See the full page for that puzzle: September 17, 2025 (#1551).

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

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How TEETH performs as a guess

TEETH 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 68.9% of games, misses completely in 31.1%, and leaves about 343 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,252 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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__T_ T in the 1st position and T 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 TEETH.

First-turn measures

All four describe TEETH 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.

3.94 Entropy (bits)
343 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.00 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TEETH 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#13,252 Rank among openers
Opening with TEETH left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.86 average. It ranks #13,252 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
674
4 guesses
1,242
5 guesses
368
6 guesses
26
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
2 vowels
Common:
ET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
31%
All gray
31%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P I T C H
T E E T H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TEETH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TEETH can come back 78 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

739 answers
435 answers
183 answers
95 answers
92 answers
62 answers
56 answers
54 answers
52 answers
52 answers
49 answers
35 answers
35 answers
32 answers
30 answers
30 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
17 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1E1E1T1H4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

SALON RAILE SONAR SCARY LAIRY LURCH

Strategy after playing TEETH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TEETH:

31% chance
Suggested:
SALON
18% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
8% chance
Suggested:
SONAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.1% →
SALON 5.80 bits
18.3% →
RAILE 5.27 bits
7.7% →
SONAR 5.27 bits
4.0% →
SCARY 4.88 bits
3.9% →
LAIRY 4.77 bits
2.6% →
LURCH 4.23 bits
2.4% →
SAULT 4.53 bits
2.3% →
SLIVE 3.99 bits
2.2% →
SORAL 4.26 bits
2.2% →
ROANY 4.49 bits

Research on TEETH

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

Optimal play

Opening with TEETH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,321 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.07 guesses at best and is rank #6,935 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.86, at or below the proven-optimal 3.87, 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 TEETH.

Rhymes with HEATH MEATH

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TEETH is a kind of set.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TEETH sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 38 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 95 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.2 of 5).

In a sentence

Do you have all your teeth?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
It is not good for the teeth.
© tatoeba.org contributor Aghanim (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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).