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TOOTH

Yes, TOOTH was the Wordle answer on February 4, 2025 (Wordle #1326).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tuːθ//tʊθ//tuθ/

Noun

A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for biting and chewing food.

“tooth decay”

Noun

A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.

Verb

To provide or furnish with teeth.

Verb

To indent; to jag.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it TOOTH.

Rhymes with TRUTH YOUTH BOOTH

In a sentence

This is a baby tooth.
© tatoeba.org contributor acell (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Did that help your tooth?
© tatoeba.org contributor rul (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use TOOTH in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 79.9% of possible answers.

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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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: February 4, 2025 (#1326).

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The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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TOOTH in Connections

1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How TOOTH performs as a guess

TOOTH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 58.1% of games, misses completely in 41.9%, and leaves about 479 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,178 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

T___H T in the 1st position and H in the 5th position T__T_ T in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _O__H O in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TOOTH 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.

3.60 Entropy (bits)
479 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
79.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TOOTH 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.76 Spread of game lengths
#13,178 Rank among openers
Opening with TOOTH solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.76 means those games clustered within about 0.76 of a guess of the 3.85 average. It ranks #13,178 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
694
4 guesses
1,216
5 guesses
358
6 guesses
40

Composition

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
58%
Green tile
34%
All gray
42%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B U S H Y
M O N T H
T O O T H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TOOTH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TOOTH can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1000 answers
237 answers
156 answers
124 answers
119 answers
115 answers
68 answers
64 answers
57 answers
32 answers
32 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
20 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1O1O1T1H4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

RAILE SERAL SLYER RAISE MANOR CRANE

Strategy after playing TOOTH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TOOTH:

42% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
SERAL
7% chance
Suggested:
SLYER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

41.9% →
RAILE 6.24 bits
9.9% →
SERAL 5.67 bits
6.5% →
SLYER 4.72 bits
5.2% →
RAISE 5.34 bits
5.0% →
MANOR 5.25 bits
4.8% →
CRANE 5.00 bits
2.9% →
RAINE 5.13 bits
2.7% →
SALEP 4.61 bits
2.4% →
SALUE 4.67 bits
1.3% →
SARGE 4.11 bits

Research on TOOTH

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

Optimal play

Opening with TOOTH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.89 guesses and ranks #13,687 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.06 guesses at best and is rank #6,832 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.85, at or below the proven-optimal 3.89, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TOOTH sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 12 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 93 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).