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

TIYIN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A currency unit of Uzbekistan, one hundredth of a som.

Noun

A former currency unit of Kazakhstan, one hundredth of a tenge.

Alternative forms: tein, tiin, tyin, tyiyn

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How TIYIN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TIYIN 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 70.2% of games, misses completely in 29.8%, and leaves about 292 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,197 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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First-turn measures

All four describe TIYIN 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.

4.08 Entropy (bits)
292 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 27% of evaluated openers
1.87 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TIYIN 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,197 Rank among openers
Opening with TIYIN left 6 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 3.79 average. It ranks #11,197 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
774
4 guesses
1,221
5 guesses
292
6 guesses
27
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:
INT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
26%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

TIYIN can come back 67 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

707 answers
277 answers
198 answers
161 answers
127 answers
78 answers
70 answers
68 answers
62 answers
49 answers
48 answers
48 answers
41 answers
41 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
28 answers
23 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1I1Y4I1N1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing TIYIN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TIYIN:

30% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
12% chance
Suggested:
REAST
8% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.8%
SOARE 6.15 bits
11.7%
REAST 5.66 bits
8.3%
SORAL 4.80 bits
6.8%
SOARE 5.30 bits
5.3%
CARLE 4.95 bits
3.3%
SORAL 4.79 bits
2.9%
PORAE 5.10 bits
2.9%
CARLE 4.96 bits
2.6%
DORSE 4.42 bits
2.1%
ROANY 3.96 bits

Research on TIYIN

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

Optimal play

Opening with TIYIN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,329 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.98 guesses at best and is rank #5,783 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it TYIHN. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TIYIN is a kind of unit.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0).