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

TITIN

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪtɪn/

Noun

A protein important in the contraction of striated muscle tissues.

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

Etymology

From titan + -in. From being a titanic (titan) protein (-in), a very large protein, the largest known prior to the discovery of PKZILLA.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use TITIN in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 81.7% 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 TITIN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TITIN 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 60.8% of games, misses completely in 39.2%, and leaves about 436 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,330 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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 TITIN 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.

3.64 Entropy (bits)
436 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TITIN 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#13,330 Rank among openers
Opening with TITIN 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 3.86 average. It ranks #13,330 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
690
4 guesses
1,230
5 guesses
355
6 guesses
38

Composition

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
INT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
61%
Green tile
28%
All gray
39%

Feedback distribution

TITIN can come back 66 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

935 answers
244 answers
211 answers
143 answers
92 answers
82 answers
69 answers
66 answers
61 answers
58 answers
47 answers
43 answers
35 answers
27 answers
23 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1I1T1I1N1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing TITIN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TITIN:

39% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
10% chance
Suggested:
SERAL
9% chance
Suggested:
SOARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

39.2% →
SOARE 6.13 bits
10.2% →
SERAL 5.66 bits
8.9% →
SOARE 5.23 bits
6.0% →
CARLE 4.99 bits
3.9% →
SOLED 4.46 bits
3.4% →
SAWER 4.73 bits
2.9% →
CARLE 5.00 bits
2.8% →
PORAE 5.16 bits
2.6% →
SARGE 4.15 bits
2.4% →
CASER 4.64 bits

Research on TITIN

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

Optimal play

Opening with TITIN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.88 guesses and ranks #13,550 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.04 guesses at best and is rank #6,717 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.86, at or below the proven-optimal 3.88, 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
TITIN 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).