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THESE

Yes, THESE was the Wordle answer on December 12, 2023 (Wordle #906).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ðiːz//ðiz/

Determiner

plural of this

Pronoun

plural of this

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: December 12, 2023 (#906).

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How THESE performs as a guess

THESE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 76.9% of games, misses completely in 23.1%, and leaves about 199 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,469 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

T___E T in the 1st position and E in the 5th position T__S_ T in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _H__E H in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe THESE 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.

4.73 Entropy (bits)
199 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 67% of evaluated openers
1.22 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How THESE 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#7,469 Rank among openers
Opening with THESE left 1 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 3.71 average. It ranks #7,469 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
818
4 guesses
1,209
5 guesses
241
6 guesses
17
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:
EST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
37%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S H I L Y
T H E S E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches THESE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

THESE can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

548 answers
252 answers
173 answers
150 answers
139 answers
78 answers
71 answers
68 answers
60 answers
50 answers
41 answers
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32 answers
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14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1H4E1S1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

CAROL RAINY GLARE SLAIN FAINT MORPH

Strategy after playing THESE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing THESE:

23% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
11% chance
Suggested:
RAINY
7% chance
Suggested:
GLARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.1% →
CAROL 5.83 bits
10.6% →
RAINY 4.99 bits
7.3% →
GLARE 4.48 bits
6.3% →
SLAIN 4.99 bits
5.9% →
FAINT 5.03 bits
3.3% →
RAINY 4.27 bits
3.0% →
MORPH 4.69 bits
2.9% →
REACT 4.36 bits
2.5% →
RAINY 4.61 bits
2.1% →
BIRTH 3.70 bits

Research on THESE

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

Optimal play

Opening with THESE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,748 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 THESE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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

One syllable Say it THEEZ.

Rhymes with TREES KNEES SEIZE TEASE PLEAS

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
THESE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 1,096 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.3 of 5).

In a sentence

I like all of these.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
These are all I have.
© tatoeba.org contributor khurios2000 (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).