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TRASH

Yes, TRASH was the Wordle answer on April 29, 2022 (Wordle #314).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɹæʃ/

Noun

Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.

Noun

A container into which things are discarded.

Verb

To discard.

Verb

To make into a mess.

“The burglars trashed the house.”

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

Etymology

From Middle English trasch, trassh, probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs”), perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz (“dirt”). Pokorny instead derives it from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it TRASH.

Rhymes with CRASH FLASH SMASH CLASH SLASH

Related meanings

Synonyms ice GLASS pan junk SCRAP rubbish

In a sentence

Take the trash out now!
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I found this in the trash.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use TRASH in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.9% 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: April 29, 2022 (#314).

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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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TRASH in Connections

6 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How TRASH performs as a guess

TRASH 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 84.6% of games, misses completely in 15.4%, and leaves about 121 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #298 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 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__S_ T in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _R__H R in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TRASH 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.

5.31 Entropy (bits)
121 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TRASH 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.

3.57 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#298 Rank among openers
Opening with TRASH solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.57 average. It ranks #298 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
1,059
4 guesses
1,060
5 guesses
162
6 guesses
10

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ARST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
34%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
F R I S T
T R A S H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TRASH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TRASH can come back 121 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

367 answers
208 answers
172 answers
116 answers
109 answers
107 answers
99 answers
67 answers
63 answers
57 answers
50 answers
44 answers
40 answers
37 answers
36 answers
36 answers
34 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1A1S1H4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

MOILE CLONE FUROR CLINE LAYER INLET

Strategy after playing TRASH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TRASH:

15% chance
Suggested:
MOILE
9% chance
Suggested:
CLONE
7% chance
Suggested:
FUROR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.4% →
MOILE 5.95 bits
8.7% →
CLONE 5.26 bits
7.2% →
FUROR 4.68 bits
4.9% →
CLINE 5.25 bits
4.6% →
CLINE 4.62 bits
4.5% →
LAYER 4.46 bits
4.2% →
INLET 5.02 bits
2.8% →
SPINE 4.41 bits
2.6% →
PALET 4.51 bits
2.4% →
CLINE 4.44 bits

Research on TRASH

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

Optimal play

Opening with TRASH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #786 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 TRASH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.57, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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
TRASH sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 26 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 91 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); 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).