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

TREYS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɹeɪz/

Noun

plural of trey

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 TREYS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TREYS 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 89.1% of games, misses completely in 10.9%, and leaves about 113 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,495 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___S T in the 1st position and S in the 5th position T__Y_ T in the 1st position and Y in the 4th position _R__S R in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TREYS 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.

5.08 Entropy (bits)
113 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 87% of evaluated openers
0.87 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TREYS 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#4,495 Rank among openers
Opening with TREYS left 1 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 3.66 average. It ranks #4,495 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
913
4 guesses
1,172
5 guesses
196
6 guesses
16
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:
ERST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
23%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

TREYS can come back 93 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

259 answers
258 answers
160 answers
143 answers
117 answers
115 answers
104 answers
86 answers
86 answers
74 answers
73 answers
54 answers
53 answers
51 answers
45 answers
36 answers
35 answers
35 answers
35 answers
35 answers
32 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1E1Y4S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

CLAIM ANILE AINEE DAILY HAUNT SNAIL

Strategy after playing TREYS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TREYS:

11% chance
Suggested:
CLAIM
11% chance
Suggested:
ANILE
7% chance
Suggested:
AINEE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.9% →
CLAIM 6.00 bits
10.9% →
ANILE 5.40 bits
6.7% →
AINEE 4.35 bits
6.0% →
DAILY 4.56 bits
4.9% →
HAUNT 4.90 bits
4.8% →
SNAIL 5.22 bits
4.4% →
CAROL 5.27 bits
3.6% →
SLANE 4.42 bits
3.6% →
DRAIN 4.47 bits
3.1% →
STAIN 4.32 bits

Research on TREYS

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

Optimal play

Opening with TREYS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,696 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 TREYS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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 TREEZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TREYS is a kind of figure or card.

Synonyms THREE iii trio trinity LEASH threesome

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TREYS 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), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).