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

TRIAC

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A three-terminal electronic component that conducts current in either direction when triggered; a bidirectional triode thyristor.

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 TRIAC performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TRIAC 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 87.2% of games, misses completely in 12.8%, and leaves about 106 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #372 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

T___C T in the 1st position and C in the 5th position T__A_ T in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _R__C R in the 2nd position and C in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TRIAC 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.

5.32 Entropy (bits)
106 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 95% of evaluated openers
0.63 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TRIAC 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#372 Rank among openers
Opening with TRIAC left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.58 average. It ranks #372 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
1,062
4 guesses
1,030
5 guesses
179
6 guesses
13
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
2 vowels
Common:
AIRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
31%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

TRIAC can come back 113 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

303 answers
213 answers
161 answers
108 answers
106 answers
101 answers
93 answers
87 answers
78 answers
64 answers
54 answers
52 answers
50 answers
47 answers
45 answers
38 answers
38 answers
36 answers
34 answers
34 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1I1A1C3
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SOLDE SLANE SORER SIDLE SOULY SAMEY

Strategy after playing TRIAC

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TRIAC:

13% chance
Suggested:
SOLDE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
7% chance
Suggested:
SORER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.8% →
SOLDE 5.89 bits
9.0% →
SLANE 5.40 bits
6.8% →
SORER 5.08 bits
4.5% →
SIDLE 5.03 bits
4.5% →
SOULY 5.22 bits
4.3% →
SAMEY 4.38 bits
3.9% →
SALUE 4.79 bits
3.7% →
CLONE 5.27 bits
3.3% →
SLANE 4.93 bits
2.7% →
SLANE 4.63 bits

Research on TRIAC

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

Optimal play

Opening with TRIAC, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,241 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.74 guesses at best and is rank #237 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it TRYAK. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TRIAC 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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).