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

TORII

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtoɹi//ˈtɔːɹi/

Noun

A traditional Japanese gate at Shinto shrines, symbolically marking the transition from the profane to the sacred.

Noun

plural of torus

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 TORII performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TORII 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 80.1% of games, misses completely in 19.9%, and leaves about 182 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,331 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___I T in the 1st position and I in the 5th position T__I_ T in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _O__I O in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TORII 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.

4.52 Entropy (bits)
182 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 53% of evaluated openers
1.43 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TORII 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#8,331 Rank among openers
Opening with TORII left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,331 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
868
4 guesses
1,173
5 guesses
256
6 guesses
20
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
3 vowels
Common:
IORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
29%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

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

472 answers
233 answers
189 answers
184 answers
134 answers
123 answers
102 answers
100 answers
76 answers
76 answers
62 answers
55 answers
54 answers
47 answers
37 answers
29 answers
28 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1O1R1I1I1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Try next

SLANE CEASE SALET CLADE SANED CRANE

Strategy after playing TORII

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TORII:

20% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
10% chance
Suggested:
CEASE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.9% →
SLANE 6.23 bits
9.8% →
CEASE 5.03 bits
8.0% →
SLANE 5.32 bits
7.8% →
SALET 5.56 bits
5.6% →
SLANE 5.26 bits
5.2% →
CLADE 4.43 bits
4.3% →
SANED 4.38 bits
4.2% →
CRANE 4.51 bits
3.2% →
SACRE 4.69 bits
3.2% →
HEIST 4.41 bits

Research on TORII

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

Optimal play

Opening with TORII, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,708 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 #4,705 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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

Three syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it TAWREEEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TORII sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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).