THREW
Yes, THREW was the Wordle answer on January 10, 2024 (Wordle #935).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /θɹuː//θɹʉw//θɹu/
- Verb
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simple past of throw
- Verb
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past participle of throw
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English threw, from Old English þrēow (first and third person past tense of þrāwan), from West Germanic *þreu, from Northwest Germanic *þrerō, from Proto-Germanic *þeþrō (first and third person past tense of *þrēaną), reduplication of *þrēaną.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it THROO.
Rhymes with DEBUT SCREW QUEUE RENEW CANOE
Related meanings
Synonyms have make give project hold drop
In a sentence
They threw it at me.
He threw up on me.
Use THREW in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: January 10, 2024 (#935).
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See what the public sample says →How THREW performs as a guess
THREW is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.2% of games, misses completely in 18.8%, and leaves about 171 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,814 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe THREW 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How THREW 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches THREW in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
THREW can come back 109 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for THREW; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing THREW
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to THREW.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing THREW:
Research on THREW
Game-tree analysis and word research for THREW, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with THREW, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #5,042 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 THREW can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- THREW sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 29 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.1 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).