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

TINTY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

inharmoniously tinted; making poor use of colour

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 TINTY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TINTY 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 70.2% of games, misses completely in 29.8%, and leaves about 291 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,015 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe TINTY 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.

4.14 Entropy (bits)
291 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 29% of evaluated openers
1.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TINTY 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
99.79% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#10,015 Rank among openers
Opening with TINTY left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #10,015 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
809
4 guesses
1,174
5 guesses
290
6 guesses
28
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:
INT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
34%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

TINTY can come back 87 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

707 answers
213 answers
200 answers
194 answers
187 answers
80 answers
71 answers
57 answers
54 answers
53 answers
52 answers
46 answers
29 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
25 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1I1N1T1Y4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing TINTY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TINTY:

30% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
9% chance
Suggested:
SERAL
8% chance
Suggested:
CARLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.8%
SOARE 6.15 bits
9.0%
SERAL 5.66 bits
8.4%
CARLE 5.44 bits
8.2%
SORAL 4.80 bits
7.9%
SOARE 5.43 bits
3.4%
SARGE 4.49 bits
3.0%
DROLE 4.65 bits
2.4%
ARISE 4.39 bits
2.3%
PORAE 5.07 bits
2.2%
SOARE 4.84 bits

Research on TINTY

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

Optimal play

Opening with TINTY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,294 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.95 guesses at best and is rank #5,374 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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 TIHNTEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.