5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

TINED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Furnished with tines.

“a three-tined fork”

Verb

simple past and past participle of tine

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 TINED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TINED 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 84.1% of games, misses completely in 15.9%, and leaves about 132 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #859 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___D T in the 1st position and D in the 5th position T__E_ T in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__D I in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position TI_ED T in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

Try next

SOLAR SEARE SHORT SORAL SLART CLARY
Words starting with T Words ending with D

First-turn measures

5.20 Entropy (bits)
132 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 92% of evaluated openers
0.75 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TINED 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#859 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TINED ranks #859 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
74
3 guesses
1,010
4 guesses
1,078
5 guesses
174
6 guesses
16
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EINT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
33%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

124 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

375
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144
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90
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TINED:

16% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
11% chance
Suggested:
SEARE
6% chance
Suggested:
SHORT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.9% →
SOLAR 5.87 bits
11.5% →
SEARE 5.47 bits
6.1% →
SHORT 5.32 bits
5.0% →
SORAL 4.42 bits
4.7% →
SLART 5.20 bits
4.3% →
CLARY 4.96 bits
3.8% →
SORAL 4.83 bits
2.3% →
SOLAR 4.11 bits
2.3% →
LEARE 4.65 bits
2.2% →
SORAL 4.55 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1I1N1E1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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