5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

TENSE

TENSE is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɛns/

Noun

The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.

“Dyirbal verbs are not inflected for tense.”

Noun

An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.

“English only has a past tense and a non-past tense; it has no future tense.”

Verb

To apply a tense to.

“tensing a verb”

Adjective

Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.

“You need to relax, all this overtime and stress is making you tense.”

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

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 TENSE performs as a guess

TENSE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.9% of games, misses completely in 19.1%, and leaves about 147 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,592 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___E T in the 1st position and E in the 5th position T__S_ T in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL ARIEL GLARE LOATH GROIN SCALP
Words starting with T Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.00 Entropy (bits)
147 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.95 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TENSE 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
0.70 Volatility
#4,592 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TENSE ranks #4,592 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
899
4 guesses
1,181
5 guesses
191
6 guesses
19
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
40%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S H I L Y
T E N S E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TENSE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

100 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

450
153
146
145
132
128
76
73
64
62
58
51
48
43
39
38
36
35
34
31
27
24
23
21
21
20
19
19
18
18

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TENSE:

19% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
6% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
6% chance
Suggested:
GLARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.1% →
CAROL 6.02 bits
6.5% →
ARIEL 4.67 bits
6.2% →
GLARE 4.59 bits
6.1% →
LOATH 4.85 bits
5.6% →
GROIN 5.22 bits
5.4% →
SCALP 5.04 bits
3.2% →
STAIR 4.29 bits
3.1% →
CLARY 5.13 bits
2.7% →
COALY 4.30 bits
2.6% →
SLASH 4.51 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1E1N1S1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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