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

TIRTH

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

No dictionary definition for TIRTH is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use TIRTH in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.8% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How TIRTH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TIRTH 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 75.2% of games, misses completely in 24.8%, and leaves about 243 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,332 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe TIRTH 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.

4.38 Entropy (bits)
243 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TIRTH 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#7,332 Rank among openers
Opening with TIRTH left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,332 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
885
4 guesses
1,147
5 guesses
253
6 guesses
20

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
28%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

TIRTH can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

592 answers
341 answers
190 answers
156 answers
91 answers
90 answers
90 answers
88 answers
71 answers
58 answers
52 answers
41 answers
40 answers
31 answers
29 answers
26 answers
24 answers
19 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1I1R1T1H4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing TIRTH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TIRTH:

25% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
14% chance
Suggested:
CANOE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.8% →
SLANE 6.15 bits
14.3% →
CANOE 5.15 bits
8.0% →
SLANE 5.63 bits
6.5% →
SLANE 5.63 bits
3.8% →
SCALE 5.29 bits
3.8% →
CAUSE 4.83 bits
3.8% →
SONLY 4.46 bits
3.7% →
PRIED 4.47 bits
3.0% →
ARSEY 4.55 bits
2.4% →
SLANE 4.58 bits

Research on TIRTH

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

Optimal play

Opening with TIRTH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,715 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.90 guesses at best and is rank #4,234 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).