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

TIDDY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtɪdi/

Adjective

Alternative form of diddy (“very small, tiny”).

Noun

Alternative spelling of titty (“a breast”).

“big tiddy goth GF”

Noun

The European wren.

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 TIDDY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TIDDY 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 66.7% of games, misses completely in 33.3%, and leaves about 356 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,225 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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___Y T in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position T__D_ T in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TIDDY 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.

3.78 Entropy (bits)
356 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TIDDY 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#12,225 Rank among openers
Opening with TIDDY left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.82 average. It ranks #12,225 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
745
4 guesses
1,200
5 guesses
343
6 guesses
24
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
1 vowels
Common:
IT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
31%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

TIDDY can come back 70 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

790 answers
302 answers
228 answers
184 answers
104 answers
91 answers
88 answers
84 answers
41 answers
40 answers
32 answers
32 answers
31 answers
29 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
17 answers
16 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1I1D2D2Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

CARSE SOARE SLANE SOLAR BRANE SNARE

Strategy after playing TIDDY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TIDDY:

33% chance
Suggested:
CARSE
13% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.3% →
CARSE 6.28 bits
12.7% →
SOARE 5.73 bits
9.6% →
SLANE 5.49 bits
7.8% →
SOLAR 4.87 bits
4.4% →
BRANE 5.31 bits
3.8% →
SNARE 4.71 bits
3.7% →
RANSE 4.86 bits
3.5% →
PORAE 5.15 bits
1.7% →
ARIEL 4.33 bits
1.7% →
SATER 4.33 bits

Research on TIDDY

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

Optimal play

Opening with TIDDY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,349 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 TIDDY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.82, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it TIHDEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TIDDY sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).