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

TOTED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of tote

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 TOTED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TOTED 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 80.2% of games, misses completely in 19.8%, and leaves about 193 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,172 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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___D T in the 1st position and D in the 5th position T__E_ T in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position TO_ED T in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TOTED 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.

4.57 Entropy (bits)
193 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 57% of evaluated openers
1.37 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TOTED 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#9,172 Rank among openers
Opening with TOTED solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.74 average. It ranks #9,172 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
784
4 guesses
1,228
5 guesses
264
6 guesses
18
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:
EOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
35%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

TOTED can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

469 answers
339 answers
170 answers
156 answers
138 answers
109 answers
98 answers
73 answers
70 answers
54 answers
50 answers
39 answers
38 answers
36 answers
36 answers
30 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1O1T1E1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

SLAIN LEARE ARSON LASER SAINT SLART

Strategy after playing TOTED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TOTED:

20% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
14% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
7% chance
Suggested:
ARSON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.8% →
SLAIN 5.89 bits
14.3% →
LEARE 5.38 bits
7.2% →
ARSON 5.27 bits
6.6% →
LASER 4.34 bits
5.8% →
SAINT 5.38 bits
4.6% →
SLART 5.10 bits
4.1% →
CLARY 4.68 bits
3.1% →
GEARE 4.63 bits
2.9% →
SNORE 4.22 bits
2.3% →
DRAIN 4.51 bits

Research on TOTED

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

Optimal play

Opening with TOTED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,380 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 TOTED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74; proven optimal play reaches 3.74. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it TOHTIHD.

Rhymes with VOTED

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TOTED is a kind of amount or child.

Synonyms TOTAL add sum toddler TALLY tug

Opposites subtract

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TOTED 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).