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TREAT

Yes, TREAT was the Wordle answer on August 20, 2022 (Wordle #427).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɹiːt/[t̠ʰɹiːt][t̠ʃʰɹiːt]

Verb

To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with).

Verb

To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion.

“Cicero's writing treats mainly of old age and personal duty.”

Noun

An entertainment, outing, food, drink, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others.

“I took the kids to the zoo for a treat.”

Noun

An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure.

“It was such a treat to see her back in action on the London stage.”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: August 20, 2022 (#427).

See the full page for that puzzle: August 20, 2022 (#427).

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

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How TREAT performs as a guess

TREAT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 85.5% of games, misses completely in 14.5%, and leaves about 131 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,156 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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___T T in the 1st position and T in the 5th position T__A_ T in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _R__T R in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TREAT 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.

5.09 Entropy (bits)
131 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 87% of evaluated openers
0.86 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TREAT 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#7,156 Rank among openers
Opening with TREAT left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.75 means those games clustered within about 0.75 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,156 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
873
4 guesses
1,104
5 guesses
281
6 guesses
21
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:
AERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
34%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
T A E L S
T R E A D
T R E A T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TREAT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TREAT can come back 112 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

344 answers
232 answers
209 answers
168 answers
134 answers
88 answers
80 answers
68 answers
66 answers
59 answers
56 answers
56 answers
41 answers
40 answers
40 answers
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39 answers
29 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
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16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1E1A1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Try next

SOILY NOISE SONLY SEINE SABLE SORRY

Strategy after playing TREAT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TREAT:

14% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
10% chance
Suggested:
NOISE
9% chance
Suggested:
SONLY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.5% →
SOILY 5.72 bits
9.8% →
NOISE 5.18 bits
8.8% →
SONLY 5.06 bits
7.1% →
SEINE 4.49 bits
5.6% →
SABLE 4.61 bits
3.7% →
SORRY 4.76 bits
3.4% →
HOARD 4.14 bits
2.9% →
SOUTH 4.65 bits
2.8% →
PRONG 3.73 bits
2.5% →
LARGE 3.69 bits

Research on TREAT

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

Optimal play

Opening with TREAT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,955 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.91 guesses at best and is rank #4,296 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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

One syllable Say it TREET.

Rhymes with SWEET ELITE SHEET FLEET SUITE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TREAT is a kind of nutrition or happening.

Synonyms deal process COVER address handle plow

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TREAT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 56 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 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 65 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.

In a sentence

That would be a treat.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
You're in for a treat.
© tatoeba.org contributor Hybrid (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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).