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TITHE

Yes, TITHE was the Wordle answer on April 17, 2024 (Wordle #1033).

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /taɪð/

Noun

A contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship (notably to the LDS church).

Noun

A small part or proportion.

Verb

To give one-tenth or a tithe of something

Verb

To take one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: April 17, 2024 (#1033).

See the full page for that puzzle: April 17, 2024 (#1033).

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

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How TITHE performs as a guess

TITHE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 79.4% of games, misses completely in 20.6%, and leaves about 201 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,916 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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___E T in the 1st position and E in the 5th position T__H_ T in the 1st position and H in the 4th position _I__E I in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TITHE 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.

4.50 Entropy (bits)
201 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 52% of evaluated openers
1.44 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TITHE 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
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#9,916 Rank among openers
Opening with TITHE solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #9,916 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
779
4 guesses
1,223
5 guesses
281
6 guesses
19
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
2 vowels
Common:
EIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
35%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S H I L Y
T I T H E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TITHE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TITHE can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

489 answers
304 answers
223 answers
180 answers
121 answers
116 answers
85 answers
70 answers
61 answers
54 answers
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46 answers
43 answers
36 answers
32 answers
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29 answers
23 answers
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19 answers
17 answers
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14 answers
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12 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1I1T1H4E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

SALON SOLAR SORAL SNAIL SONAR ROACH

Strategy after playing TITHE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TITHE:

21% chance
Suggested:
SALON
13% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
9% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.6% →
SALON 5.83 bits
12.8% →
SOLAR 5.21 bits
9.4% →
SORAL 4.88 bits
7.6% →
SNAIL 5.13 bits
5.1% →
SONAR 5.20 bits
4.9% →
ROACH 5.13 bits
3.6% →
SERAL 4.62 bits
2.9% →
SADLY 4.14 bits
2.6% →
SONAR 3.76 bits
2.3% →
SLANT 4.34 bits

Research on TITHE

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

Optimal play

Opening with TITHE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,334 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 TITHE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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 TYTH.

Rhymes with LITHE WYTHE SITHE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TITHE is a kind of levy or offering.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TITHE 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.

In a sentence

Does Germany tithe on behalf of churches?
© tatoeba.org contributor mollydot (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).