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TITHI

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈt̪ɪt̪ʰɪ//ˈt̪ɪt̪ʰi//ˈtiːti/

Noun

The lunar date based on the Hindu calendar. There are 30 tithis in each lunar month. Tithis begin at varying times of a solar day and vary in duration from approximately 19 to 26 hours.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Sanskrit तिथि (tithi, “lunar day”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use TITHI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 78.0% 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 TITHI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TITHI 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 57.1% of games, misses completely in 42.9%, and leaves about 525 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,211 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 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 TITHI 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.

3.21 Entropy (bits)
525 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
78.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TITHI 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.

3.92 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#14,211 Rank among openers
Opening with TITHI left 4 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 3.92 average. It ranks #14,211 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
24
3 guesses
638
4 guesses
1,229
5 guesses
423
6 guesses
36

Composition

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
57%
Green tile
20%
All gray
43%

Feedback distribution

TITHI can come back 52 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1023 answers
273 answers
243 answers
196 answers
126 answers
76 answers
63 answers
47 answers
46 answers
33 answers
21 answers
20 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
13 answers
13 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1I1T1H4I1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing TITHI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TITHI:

43% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
10% chance
Suggested:
SOARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

42.9% →
SOARE 6.02 bits
11.5% →
SLANE 5.42 bits
10.2% →
SOARE 5.66 bits
8.2% →
CARSE 5.75 bits
5.3% →
RANSE 4.70 bits
3.2% →
SNARE 4.63 bits
2.6% →
PORAE 4.95 bits
2.0% →
SOARE 4.66 bits
1.9% →
SANER 4.58 bits
1.4% →
CARSE 4.13 bits

Research on TITHI

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

Optimal play

Opening with TITHI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.95 guesses and ranks #14,444 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 TITHI can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.92, at or below the proven-optimal 3.95, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TITHI sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).