5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

TENDU

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A move in which the leg and foot stretch to point in a particular direction, but the foot does not leave the floor.

Noun

Diospyros melanoxylon, a tree in the family Ebenaceae, native to parts of South Asia, whose leaves are used as beedi-wrappers.

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 TENDU performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TENDU 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 83.6% of games, misses completely in 16.4%, and leaves about 156 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,344 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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__D_ T in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _E__U E in the 2nd position and U in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL SOLAR HOIST SURLY ARSON SLART
Words starting with T Words ending with U

First-turn measures

4.79 Entropy (bits)
156 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 71% of evaluated openers
1.16 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TENDU 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#4,344 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TENDU ranks #4,344 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
898
4 guesses
1,215
5 guesses
168
6 guesses
17
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
2 vowels
Common:
ENTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
23%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

386
314
172
136
117
112
91
82
72
63
61
47
44
42
36
34
33
29
27
25
22
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16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TENDU:

16% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
13% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
7% chance
Suggested:
HOIST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.4% →
CAROL 6.07 bits
13.3% →
SOLAR 5.41 bits
7.3% →
HOIST 5.31 bits
5.8% →
SURLY 4.84 bits
5.0% →
ARSON 5.07 bits
4.7% →
SLART 5.23 bits
3.9% →
LEARE 4.70 bits
3.5% →
AROSE 4.61 bits
3.1% →
LAIRY 5.01 bits
2.7% →
SOLAR 4.40 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1E1N1D2U1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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