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

TODDE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Obsolete form of tod (“old unit of weight”).

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 TODDE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TODDE 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 80.3% of games, misses completely in 19.7%, and leaves about 192 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,023 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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.

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__D_ T in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SLAIN SERAL SLART SAINT ARSON CLARY
Words starting with T Words ending with E

First-turn measures

All four describe TODDE 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.

4.45 Entropy (bits)
192 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 48% of evaluated openers
1.50 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TODDE 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,023 Rank among openers
Opening with TODDE left 1 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 3.78 average. It ranks #11,023 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
733
4 guesses
1,250
5 guesses
299
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
36%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

TODDE can come back 80 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

466 answers
281 answers
210 answers
179 answers
169 answers
125 answers
97 answers
61 answers
59 answers
57 answers
52 answers
49 answers
45 answers
43 answers
40 answers
29 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
20 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TODDE:

20% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
12% chance
Suggested:
SERAL
9% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.7% →
SLAIN 5.89 bits
11.9% →
SERAL 5.33 bits
8.9% →
SLART 4.60 bits
7.6% →
SAINT 5.41 bits
7.2% →
ARSON 5.27 bits
5.3% →
SLART 5.02 bits
4.1% →
CLARY 4.70 bits
2.6% →
LAIRY 4.75 bits
2.5% →
SLART 4.29 bits
2.4% →
ARIEL 4.58 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1O1D2D2E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

The science of TODDE

What game-tree analysis and word research measure about TODDE — each figure with what it means.

Optimal play

Opening with TODDE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses — rank #8,069 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 TODDE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78; proven optimal play reaches 3.75 — the gap is the price of a fixed strategy.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers) — not the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable — say it TOHD. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.