5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

TICCA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Engaged by the job, or on a contract.

“a ticca gharry: a hired carriage”

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 TICCA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TICCA 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 78.2% of games, misses completely in 21.8%, and leaves about 232 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,044 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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___A T in the 1st position and A in the 5th position T__C_ T in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _I__A I in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

SOLER RANSE SNORE SOREL SLANE SOLED
Words starting with T Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.24 Entropy (bits)
232 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 35% of evaluated openers
1.71 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TICCA 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#10,044 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TICCA ranks #10,044 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
802
4 guesses
1,215
5 guesses
274
6 guesses
22
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
24%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

74 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

515
398
175
165
142
108
74
73
72
68
55
42
40
38
36
30
29
18
18
18
16
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12
10
10
10
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TICCA:

22% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
17% chance
Suggested:
RANSE
7% chance
Suggested:
SNORE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.8% →
SOLER 5.98 bits
16.9% →
RANSE 5.35 bits
7.4% →
SNORE 5.24 bits
7.0% →
SOREL 5.56 bits
6.0% →
SLANE 5.04 bits
4.6% →
SOLED 4.59 bits
3.1% →
PROLE 5.13 bits
3.1% →
ARIEL 4.35 bits
3.1% →
SLIER 4.56 bits
2.9% →
SOREL 4.76 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1I1C3C3A1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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