5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

TINGS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of ting

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 TINGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TINGS 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 76.9% of games, misses completely in 23.1%, and leaves about 200 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,431 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

T___S T in the 1st position and S in the 5th position T__G_ T in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TINGS 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.

4.63 Entropy (bits)
200 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 60% of evaluated openers
1.32 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TINGS 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#1,431 Rank among openers
Opening with TINGS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,431 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
997
4 guesses
1,135
5 guesses
154
6 guesses
14
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
INST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
22%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

TINGS can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

548 answers
227 answers
181 answers
141 answers
135 answers
118 answers
80 answers
71 answers
65 answers
59 answers
52 answers
46 answers
45 answers
45 answers
37 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
26 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1I1N1G2S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

CARLE PARLE DROLE STARE GLARE PORAE

Strategy after playing TINGS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TINGS:

23% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
10% chance
Suggested:
PARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
CARLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.1% →
CARLE 6.24 bits
9.6% →
PARLE 5.73 bits
7.6% →
CARLE 5.61 bits
5.9% →
CARLE 5.45 bits
5.7% →
DROLE 5.24 bits
5.0% →
STARE 4.83 bits
3.4% →
GLARE 5.32 bits
3.0% →
PORAE 5.11 bits
2.7% →
DROLE 4.52 bits
2.5% →
CARLE 4.55 bits

Research on TINGS

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

Optimal play

Opening with TINGS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,284 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best and is rank #1,152 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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

One syllable Say it TIHNGZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TINGS is a kind of sound or have.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TINGS 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).