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

THANA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtɑː.nə//ˈtɑ.nə//ˈtɐː.nə/

Noun

An military outpost.

Noun

A police station or police jurisdiction.

Alternative forms: tana, tanna, tannah, thanna

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 THANA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts THANA 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 74.0% of games, misses completely in 26.0%, and leaves about 239 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,906 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

T___A T in the 1st position and A in the 5th position T__N_ T in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _H__A H in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in THANA.

First-turn measures

All four describe THANA 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)
239 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 44% of evaluated openers
1.56 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How THANA 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#7,906 Rank among openers
Opening with THANA left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #7,906 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
840
4 guesses
1,204
5 guesses
241
6 guesses
18
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
2 vowels
Common:
ANT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
30%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

THANA can come back 85 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

617 answers
251 answers
198 answers
165 answers
110 answers
86 answers
83 answers
81 answers
68 answers
54 answers
52 answers
52 answers
45 answers
32 answers
30 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1H4A1N1A1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

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SOLER CARLE SOREL SILER SCIRE SALET

Strategy after playing THANA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing THANA:

26% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
11% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
SOREL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.0% →
SOLER 5.94 bits
10.6% →
CARLE 5.35 bits
8.3% →
SOREL 5.52 bits
7.0% →
SILER 5.17 bits
4.6% →
SCIRE 4.90 bits
3.6% →
SALET 4.80 bits
3.5% →
CANOE 4.60 bits
3.4% →
ROUSE 4.42 bits
2.9% →
SOUCE 4.64 bits
2.3% →
CRISE 5.00 bits

Research on THANA

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

Optimal play

Opening with THANA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,021 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.90 guesses at best and is rank #4,123 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, 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.

How it sounds

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

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
THANA sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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).