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

THEIN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of theine.

Noun

Obsolete form of thane.

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 THEIN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts THEIN 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 85.2% of games, misses completely in 14.8%, and leaves about 140 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,455 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___N T in the 1st position and N in the 5th position T__I_ T in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _H__N H in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SOLAR LAREE SORAL SLIMY SEARE ROANY
Words starting with T Words ending with N

First-turn measures

All four describe THEIN 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.

5.09 Entropy (bits)
140 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 88% of evaluated openers
0.86 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How THEIN 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#2,455 Rank among openers
Opening with THEIN left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,455 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
963
4 guesses
1,102
5 guesses
195
6 guesses
19
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EINT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
28%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

THEIN can come back 118 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

350 answers
342 answers
116 answers
109 answers
105 answers
97 answers
94 answers
72 answers
70 answers
64 answers
57 answers
49 answers
40 answers
38 answers
36 answers
34 answers
33 answers
32 answers
32 answers
31 answers
29 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing THEIN:

15% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
14% chance
Suggested:
LAREE
5% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.8% →
SOLAR 5.86 bits
14.5% →
LAREE 5.44 bits
4.9% →
SORAL 5.43 bits
4.6% →
SLIMY 4.77 bits
4.4% →
SEARE 4.87 bits
4.1% →
ROANY 4.82 bits
4.0% →
PLIED 4.47 bits
3.1% →
SONAR 4.57 bits
3.0% →
SAURY 4.78 bits
2.7% →
SAKER 4.18 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1H4E1I1N1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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