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TENTH

Yes, TENTH was the Wordle answer on August 1, 2023 (Wordle #773).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɛnθ/[tʰɛn̪θ]/tɪnθ/

Adjective

The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.

Adjective

Being one of ten equal parts of a whole.

Noun

The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position.

Noun

One of ten equal parts of a whole.

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: August 1, 2023 (#773).

See the full page for that puzzle: August 1, 2023 (#773).

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

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How TENTH performs as a guess

TENTH 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 78.2% of games, misses completely in 21.8%, and leaves about 228 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,527 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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 TENTH.

First-turn measures

All four describe TENTH 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.

4.39 Entropy (bits)
228 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 44% of evaluated openers
1.55 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TENTH 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#9,527 Rank among openers
Opening with TENTH left 2 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 3.75 average. It ranks #9,527 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
786
4 guesses
1,216
5 guesses
273
6 guesses
21
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ENT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
29%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TENTH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TENTH can come back 86 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

518 answers
413 answers
163 answers
136 answers
113 answers
102 answers
84 answers
78 answers
58 answers
54 answers
48 answers
46 answers
39 answers
35 answers
32 answers
31 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1E1N1T1H4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SOLAR ARISE GRAIN SORAL LEARE ANILE

Strategy after playing TENTH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TENTH:

22% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
17% chance
Suggested:
ARISE
7% chance
Suggested:
GRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.8% →
SOLAR 5.83 bits
17.4% →
ARISE 5.28 bits
6.9% →
GRAIN 5.14 bits
5.7% →
SORAL 5.41 bits
4.8% →
LEARE 4.62 bits
4.3% →
ANILE 4.53 bits
3.5% →
SLART 5.04 bits
3.3% →
SCARY 4.88 bits
2.4% →
SAUCY 4.05 bits
2.3% →
SOLAR 4.73 bits

Research on TENTH

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

Optimal play

Opening with TENTH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,741 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.93 guesses at best and is rank #4,787 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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 TEHNTH.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TENTH is a kind of fraction or rank.

Opposites cardinal

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TENTH sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 8 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.0 of 5).

In a sentence

Today is what, the tenth already?
© tatoeba.org contributor frpzzd (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I'm in the tenth grade.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).