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

TOISE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɔɪz/

Noun

A former French unit of length, corresponding to about 1.949 metres.

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 TOISE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TOISE 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 91.2% of games, misses completely in 8.8%, and leaves about 82 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #653 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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 TOISE 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.

5.64 Entropy (bits)
82 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.6% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.31 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TOISE 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#653 Rank among openers
Opening with TOISE solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #653 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
86
3 guesses
991
4 guesses
1,095
5 guesses
168
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

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EIOST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
91%
Green tile
44%
All gray
9%

Feedback distribution

TOISE can come back 122 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

220 answers
210 answers
122 answers
119 answers
106 answers
104 answers
84 answers
81 answers
65 answers
58 answers
56 answers
46 answers
45 answers
42 answers
40 answers
40 answers
35 answers
33 answers
33 answers
32 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1O1I1S1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Strategy after playing TOISE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TOISE:

9% chance
Suggested:
RENAL
9% chance
Suggested:
CLARY
5% chance
Suggested:
CLARY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.3%
RENAL 5.51 bits
8.8%
CLARY 5.46 bits
5.1%
CLARY 4.50 bits
5.0%
CAROL 5.04 bits
4.5%
CLARY 4.59 bits
4.4%
PLAID 4.73 bits
3.5%
CLARY 4.83 bits
3.4%
LEARE 4.69 bits
2.7%
CLARY 4.70 bits
2.4%
CARAT 4.35 bits

Research on TOISE

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

Optimal play

Opening with TOISE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.61 guesses and ranks #305 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 TOISE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.61, 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 TOYZ. 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.