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TOFFS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of toff

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 TOFFS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TOFFS 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 68.0% of games, misses completely in 32.0%, and leaves about 344 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,492 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

T___S T in the 1st position and S in the 5th position T__F_ T in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in TOFFS.

First-turn measures

All four describe TOFFS 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.

3.68 Entropy (bits)
344 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.27 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TOFFS 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#11,492 Rank among openers
Opening with TOFFS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,492 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
696
4 guesses
1,343
5 guesses
263
6 guesses
14
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
1 vowels
Common:
OST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
21%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

TOFFS can come back 62 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

760 answers
284 answers
215 answers
210 answers
159 answers
130 answers
97 answers
71 answers
57 answers
50 answers
35 answers
32 answers
31 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
10 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1O1F4F4S1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

RAILE HEART CRANE CARLE SPAER RAINE

Strategy after playing TOFFS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TOFFS:

32% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
12% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
HEART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.0% →
RAILE 6.27 bits
12.0% →
RAILE 5.48 bits
9.1% →
HEART 5.43 bits
8.8% →
CRANE 5.43 bits
6.7% →
CARLE 4.71 bits
5.5% →
SPAER 4.89 bits
4.1% →
RAINE 5.22 bits
3.0% →
ARIEL 5.07 bits
2.4% →
RANCE 4.13 bits
2.1% →
ARIEL 4.32 bits

Research on TOFFS

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

Optimal play

Opening with TOFFS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #12,892 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.99 guesses at best and is rank #6,099 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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

One syllable Say it TAWFS. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TOFFS is a kind of have.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TOFFS 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); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).