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

TREYF

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɹeɪf/

Adjective

Not kosher.

“The casserole looked delicious, but Moishe wouldn't eat it because it was treyf.”

Alternative forms: treyfa, treyfe, treifa, treife

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 TREYF performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TREYF 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 85.2% of games, misses completely in 14.8%, and leaves about 161 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,007 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe TREYF 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.

4.68 Entropy (bits)
161 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 64% of evaluated openers
1.27 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TREYF 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#7,007 Rank among openers
Opening with TREYF left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #7,007 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
859
4 guesses
1,200
5 guesses
229
6 guesses
14
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
23%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

TREYF can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

352 answers
324 answers
187 answers
178 answers
171 answers
126 answers
100 answers
91 answers
57 answers
52 answers
49 answers
45 answers
37 answers
37 answers
36 answers
34 answers
34 answers
30 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1E1Y4F4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing TREYF

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TREYF:

15% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
14% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
8% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.8%
SLAIN 6.16 bits
13.6%
SLANE 5.28 bits
7.9%
SOLAR 4.48 bits
7.5%
SADLY 4.69 bits
7.2%
SAINT 5.39 bits
5.3%
CAROL 5.19 bits
4.2%
SAULT 4.75 bits
3.8%
CANOE 3.92 bits
2.4%
SLANE 4.52 bits
2.2%
DIANE 3.88 bits

Research on TREYF

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

Optimal play

Opening with TREYF, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,225 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.87 guesses at best and is rank #3,536 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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 TREEF. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.