TOURS
TOURS is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.
Meaning and pronunciation
- Noun
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plural of tour
- Verb
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third-person singular simple present indicative of tour
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From French Tours, from Latin Turonum, from Turones, the name of the area's Gaulish inhabitants in antiquity.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it TUURZ.
Rhymes with YOURS CURES MOORS LURES BOORS
Related meanings
Synonyms go turn circuit SPELL HITCH
In a sentence
Do you have one-day tours?
Do you have any day tours?
Use TOURS in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
NoThe solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #203
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TOURS appeared in PLACES IN FRANCE (blue group).
How TOURS performs as a guess
Wordle accepts TOURS 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 83.8% of games, misses completely in 16.2%, and leaves about 134 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #869 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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.
First-turn measures
All four describe TOURS 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How TOURS 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Feedback distribution
TOURS can come back 108 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for TOURS; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing TOURS
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to TOURS.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing TOURS:
Research on TOURS
Game-tree analysis and word research for TOURS, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with TOURS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,664 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.77 guesses at best and is rank #692 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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
- TOURS sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 14 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.4 of 5).
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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).