Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

TENTY

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

No dictionary definition for TENTY is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 90.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 TENTY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TENTY 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 81.6% of games, misses completely in 18.4%, and leaves about 218 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,621 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe TENTY 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.

4.34 Entropy (bits)
218 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 41% of evaluated openers
1.61 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TENTY 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#10,621 Rank among openers
Opening with TENTY left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,621 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
753
4 guesses
1,230
5 guesses
284
6 guesses
26
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)
82%
Green tile
36%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

TENTY can come back 84 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

440 answers
437 answers
191 answers
162 answers
153 answers
104 answers
101 answers
96 answers
50 answers
43 answers
40 answers
37 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
32 answers
29 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1E1N1T1Y4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing TENTY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TENTY:

19% chance
Suggested:
ARISE
18% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
8% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.5%
ARISE 5.33 bits
18.4%
CAROL 6.12 bits
8.0%
SOLAR 4.73 bits
6.8%
ROAST 5.27 bits
6.4%
GRAIN 5.13 bits
4.4%
ARIEL 4.63 bits
4.3%
RAILE 4.69 bits
4.0%
SLART 5.05 bits
2.1%
SAULT 4.39 bits
1.8%
CADIE 4.02 bits

Research on TENTY

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

Optimal play

Opening with TENTY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,211 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.96 guesses at best and is rank #5,580 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it TEHNTEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.