5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

TENTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɛnts//tɪnts/

Noun

plural of tent

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of tent

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 TENTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TENTS 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 80.9% of games, misses completely in 19.1%, and leaves about 185 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,329 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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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__T_ T in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position TE_TS T in the 1st position, E in the 2nd position, T in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL RAILE SHALY GROIN SPARE LEARE
Words starting with T Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.55 Entropy (bits)
185 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TENTS 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,329 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TENTS ranks #8,329 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
806
4 guesses
1,246
5 guesses
226
6 guesses
21
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ENST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
27%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

81 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

450
339
164
132
125
111
98
87
75
64
60
46
45
36
35
34
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TENTS:

19% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
14% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
7% chance
Suggested:
SHALY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.1% →
CAROL 6.02 bits
14.4% →
RAILE 5.27 bits
7.0% →
SHALY 5.04 bits
5.6% →
GROIN 5.22 bits
5.3% →
SPARE 4.85 bits
4.7% →
LEARE 4.74 bits
4.2% →
ACTOR 4.73 bits
3.7% →
ARIEL 4.61 bits
3.2% →
STAIR 4.58 bits
2.7% →
COALY 4.30 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1E1N1T1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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