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

TIARE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A female given name. Used in Hawaii since the 1980s.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Tahitian Tiare, from tiare, a small white gardenia (Gardenia tahitiensis ), the national flower of Tahiti.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use TIARE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 97.3% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How TIARE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TIARE 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 91.5% of games, misses completely in 8.5%, and leaves about 63 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #209 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe TIARE 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.

5.93 Entropy (bits)
63 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
97.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TIARE 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.

3.57 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#209 Rank among openers
Opening with TIARE left 3 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 3.57 average. It ranks #209 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
93
3 guesses
1,029
4 guesses
1,044
5 guesses
171
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEIRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
92%
Green tile
43%
All gray
8%

Feedback distribution

TIARE can come back 143 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

203 answers
125 answers
109 answers
106 answers
88 answers
83 answers
78 answers
66 answers
64 answers
61 answers
57 answers
55 answers
54 answers
53 answers
53 answers
46 answers
42 answers
40 answers
38 answers
38 answers
38 answers
36 answers
34 answers
28 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1I1A1R1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Strategy after playing TIARE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TIARE:

9% chance
Suggested:
SONLY
5% chance
Suggested:
SONLY
5% chance
Suggested:
SONLY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

8.5% →
SONLY 5.36 bits
5.2% →
SONLY 5.10 bits
4.6% →
SONLY 4.94 bits
4.4% →
SOLED 3.98 bits
3.7% →
SONLY 4.84 bits
3.5% →
SOULY 4.58 bits
3.3% →
CROWD 4.32 bits
2.8% →
CLASP 4.57 bits
2.7% →
SHUNT 4.65 bits
2.6% →
MAYOR 4.42 bits

Research on TIARE

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

Optimal play

Opening with TIARE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.58 guesses and ranks #45 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.73 guesses at best and is rank #145 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.57, at or below the proven-optimal 3.58, 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
TIARE sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).