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

THINE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ðaɪn/

Determiner

Second-person singular prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form: thy).

Pronoun

Second-person singular possessive pronoun; yours.

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 THINE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts THINE 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 121 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,506 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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 THINE 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.

5.28 Entropy (bits)
121 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.67 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How THINE 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#1,506 Rank among openers
Opening with THINE 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 3.61 average. It ranks #1,506 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
81
3 guesses
977
4 guesses
1,095
5 guesses
179
6 guesses
21
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EINT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
38%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

THINE can come back 127 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

351 answers
227 answers
180 answers
116 answers
111 answers
104 answers
83 answers
71 answers
70 answers
56 answers
55 answers
43 answers
42 answers
41 answers
40 answers
38 answers
34 answers
32 answers
31 answers
30 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1H4I1N1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing THINE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing THINE:

15% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
10% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
8% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.8%
SOLAR 5.87 bits
9.6%
SOLAR 5.19 bits
7.6%
SORAL 4.88 bits
4.9%
SORAL 5.43 bits
4.7%
SADLY 4.86 bits
4.4%
SLART 5.08 bits
3.5%
SALON 4.95 bits
3.0%
SORAL 4.38 bits
2.9%
SAURY 4.78 bits
2.4%
CLARY 4.41 bits

Research on THINE

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

Optimal play

Opening with THINE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,145 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.77 guesses at best and is rank #741 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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 THYN.

Rhymes with SHINE SPINE STEIN ALIGN SWINE

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
THINE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

In a sentence

I but prefer to live in a different world, not in thine.
© tatoeba.org contributor nonong (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Thine eyes are as doves.
© tatoeba.org contributor MrShoval (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).