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

TOITS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of toit

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 TOITS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TOITS 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 76.7% of games, misses completely in 23.3%, and leaves about 210 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,100 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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 TOITS 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.

4.50 Entropy (bits)
210 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 52% of evaluated openers
1.45 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TOITS 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#7,100 Rank among openers
Opening with TOITS left 6 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #7,100 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
865
4 guesses
1,178
5 guesses
228
6 guesses
24
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:
IOST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
33%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

TOITS can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

552 answers
212 answers
186 answers
184 answers
161 answers
121 answers
116 answers
76 answers
53 answers
50 answers
47 answers
47 answers
39 answers
31 answers
30 answers
29 answers
27 answers
26 answers
21 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1O1I1T1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Strategy after playing TOITS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TOITS:

23% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
9% chance
Suggested:
SPALE
8% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.3%
CARLE 6.19 bits
8.9%
SPALE 5.50 bits
7.8%
CRANE 5.48 bits
7.8%
LINER 5.26 bits
6.8%
CARLE 4.65 bits
5.1%
CRANE 5.05 bits
4.9%
ALERT 5.18 bits
3.2%
LEANT 4.63 bits
2.2%
RANCE 4.08 bits
2.1%
PLANE 4.23 bits

Research on TOITS

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

Optimal play

Opening with TOITS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,168 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.92 guesses at best and is rank #4,579 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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 TOYTS. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TOITS 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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).