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

TETES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.9% of possible answers.

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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 TETES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TETES 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 72.6% of games, misses completely in 27.4%, and leaves about 263 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,897 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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___S T in the 1st position and S in the 5th position T__E_ T in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position TE_ES T in the 1st position, E in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL RAILE SLAIN RAINY FAINT SORAL
Words starting with T Words ending with S

First-turn measures

All four describe TETES 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.

4.16 Entropy (bits)
263 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 30% of evaluated openers
1.79 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TETES 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,897 Rank among openers
Opening with TETES left 4 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 3.84 average. It ranks #12,897 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
678
4 guesses
1,273
5 guesses
327
6 guesses
29
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
32%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

TETES can come back 74 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

647 answers
247 answers
216 answers
159 answers
138 answers
108 answers
106 answers
101 answers
64 answers
52 answers
43 answers
39 answers
33 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TETES:

27% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
10% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.4% →
CAROL 5.90 bits
10.5% →
RAILE 4.99 bits
9.2% →
SLAIN 4.98 bits
6.7% →
RAINY 4.43 bits
5.8% →
FAINT 4.91 bits
4.6% →
SORAL 4.50 bits
4.5% →
STAIR 4.40 bits
4.3% →
CLARY 4.99 bits
2.7% →
ROANY 4.54 bits
2.2% →
CARLE 4.57 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1E1T1E1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

The science of TETES

What game-tree analysis and word research measure about TETES — each figure with what it means.

Optimal play

Opening with TETES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses — rank #11,838 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 TETES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84; proven optimal play reaches 3.83 — the gap is the price of a fixed strategy.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers) — not the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable — say it TEETS. Estimated pronunciation

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

How people know it

Frequency
TETES sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English — a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).