5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

TENDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɛndz/

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of tend

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 TENDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TENDS 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 85.3% of games, misses completely in 14.7%, and leaves about 130 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,480 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___S T in the 1st position and S in the 5th position T__D_ T in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL RAILE SHALY LOATH SPARE GRAIN
Words starting with T Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.96 Entropy (bits)
130 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 81% of evaluated openers
0.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TENDS 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#2,480 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TENDS ranks #2,480 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
921
4 guesses
1,197
5 guesses
158
6 guesses
10
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
1 vowels
Common:
ENST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
25%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

347
257
151
125
115
103
93
84
84
81
68
62
54
50
48
44
37
36
30
29
25
25
25
21
21
20
19
19
18
18

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TENDS:

15% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
11% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
6% chance
Suggested:
SHALY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.7% →
CAROL 6.14 bits
10.9% →
RAILE 5.20 bits
6.4% →
SHALY 5.05 bits
5.3% →
LOATH 4.90 bits
4.9% →
SPARE 4.87 bits
4.4% →
GRAIN 5.27 bits
3.9% →
STAIR 4.52 bits
3.6% →
LAIRY 5.00 bits
3.6% →
LAREE 4.89 bits
3.4% →
LEARE 4.73 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1E1N1D2S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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