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

TERRE

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

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

Meaning and pronunciation

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

Check TERRE on Wiktionary or report a missing entry.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it TEHRUH.

Rhymes with SERRA NAIRA

Use TERRE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.7% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How TERRE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TERRE 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 75.0% of games, misses completely in 25.0%, and leaves about 223 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,276 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 TERRE 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.

4.52 Entropy (bits)
223 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TERRE 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#10,276 Rank among openers
Opening with TERRE left 3 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 #10,276 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
780
4 guesses
1,201
5 guesses
295
6 guesses
22

Composition

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
40%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

TERRE can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

596 answers
230 answers
186 answers
168 answers
129 answers
113 answers
61 answers
61 answers
58 answers
52 answers
52 answers
51 answers
45 answers
37 answers
35 answers
29 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1E1R1R1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Strategy after playing TERRE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TERRE:

25% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
10% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.0% →
SLAIN 5.87 bits
9.6% →
SAINT 5.38 bits
7.8% →
SLANE 4.66 bits
7.0% →
ARSON 4.73 bits
5.4% →
ALIEN 5.27 bits
4.7% →
SOLAR 4.02 bits
2.6% →
COALY 4.36 bits
2.6% →
SLANT 4.57 bits
2.4% →
SHALY 4.37 bits
2.2% →
DIANE 3.63 bits

Research on TERRE

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

Optimal play

Opening with TERRE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,465 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with TERRE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TERRE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).