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TRIAL

Yes, TRIAL was the Wordle answer on January 12, 2026 (Wordle #1668).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪəl/[tɹaɪəl]

Noun

An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.

Noun

A meeting or series of meetings in a court of law at which evidence is presented to a judge (and sometimes a jury) to allow them to decide on a legal matter (especially whether an accused person is guilty of a crime).

“If you are convicted at trial, you have the right to file an appeal.”

Adjective

Pertaining to a trial or test.

Adjective

Attempted on a provisional or experimental basis.

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: January 12, 2026 (#1668).

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

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How TRIAL performs as a guess

TRIAL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 90.5% of games, misses completely in 9.5%, and leaves about 85 possible answers on average.

In the current bounded six-turn policy, it ranks #79 of 182 evaluated openers; exact misses rank first, then average guesses among wins.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #40 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.54 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___L T in the 1st position and L in the 5th position T__A_ T in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _R__L R in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

SHONE SORER SONCE SOUCE SPALE SAMEY
Words starting with T Words ending with L

First-turn measures

5.54 Entropy (bits)
85 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 99% of evaluated openers
0.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TRIAL 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.

3.54 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#40 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TRIAL ranks #40 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
1,101
4 guesses
1,002
5 guesses
161
6 guesses
10
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AILRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
34%
All gray
10%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S P I A L
T R I A L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TRIAL in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

126 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

225
164
157
135
102
99
99
94
84
68
63
49
49
48
47
39
34
32
30
28
28
27
27
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25
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TRIAL:

10% chance
Suggested:
SHONE
7% chance
Suggested:
SORER
7% chance
Suggested:
SONCE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.5% →
SHONE 5.77 bits
7.0% →
SORER 5.13 bits
6.7% →
SONCE 5.20 bits
5.7% →
SOUCE 5.15 bits
4.3% →
SPALE 4.66 bits
4.2% →
SAMEY 4.35 bits
4.2% →
SOUTH 5.22 bits
4.0% →
SONCE 4.94 bits
3.6% →
CAUSE 4.66 bits
2.9% →
SCONE 4.35 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1I1A1L1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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