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

TITUP

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of tittup.

Verb

Alternative form of tittup.

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

Use TITUP in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 86.0% 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 TITUP performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TITUP 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 67.1% of games, misses completely in 32.9%, and leaves about 334 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,006 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 TITUP 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.

3.97 Entropy (bits)
334 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TITUP 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#10,006 Rank among openers
Opening with TITUP left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #10,006 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
782
4 guesses
1,213
5 guesses
280
6 guesses
24

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ITU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
24%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

TITUP can come back 78 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

784 answers
236 answers
195 answers
181 answers
132 answers
121 answers
63 answers
59 answers
57 answers
51 answers
44 answers
40 answers
35 answers
32 answers
32 answers
26 answers
25 answers
22 answers
20 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1I1T1U1P3
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing TITUP

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TITUP:

33% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
10% chance
Suggested:
CRANE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLYER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.9% →
CARLE 6.14 bits
9.9% →
CRANE 5.51 bits
8.2% →
SLYER 4.88 bits
7.6% →
SERAL 5.66 bits
5.5% →
PARSE 5.83 bits
5.1% →
SOLED 4.61 bits
2.6% →
REAST 4.58 bits
2.5% →
SONAR 4.32 bits
2.4% →
CARNE 4.99 bits
2.1% →
CANER 4.66 bits

Research on TITUP

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

Optimal play

Opening with TITUP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,876 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 #5,241 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 3.80, 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).