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

TOLES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of tole

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 TOLES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TOLES 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 90.4% of games, misses completely in 9.6%, and leaves about 88 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #400 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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.

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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__E_ T in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position TO_ES T in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TOLES 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.

5.45 Entropy (bits)
88 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 98% of evaluated openers
0.50 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TOLES 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#400 Rank among openers
Opening with TOLES left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.58 average. It ranks #400 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
80
3 guesses
1,012
4 guesses
1,096
5 guesses
149
6 guesses
16
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
2 vowels
Common:
ELOST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
33%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

TOLES can come back 112 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

229 answers
209 answers
125 answers
112 answers
111 answers
103 answers
93 answers
93 answers
79 answers
77 answers
70 answers
66 answers
50 answers
47 answers
44 answers
41 answers
37 answers
36 answers
32 answers
31 answers
31 answers
30 answers
29 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1O1L1E1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

CAIRN DEARE RAINY APRON SHARP GLARE

Strategy after playing TOLES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TOLES:

10% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
9% chance
Suggested:
DEARE
5% chance
Suggested:
RAINY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.6% →
CAIRN 5.87 bits
8.8% →
DEARE 5.45 bits
5.3% →
RAINY 4.86 bits
4.7% →
APRON 5.07 bits
4.7% →
SHARP 5.10 bits
4.3% →
RAINY 4.32 bits
3.9% →
GLARE 4.61 bits
3.9% →
FAITH 4.72 bits
3.3% →
PEARE 4.62 bits
3.2% →
DEARY 4.06 bits

Research on TOLES

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

Optimal play

Opening with TOLES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.61 guesses and ranks #294 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 TOLES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, 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 TOHLZ.

Rhymes with GOALS ROLES HOLES ROLLS SOULS

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TOLES is a kind of ware.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TOLES 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); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).