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TRIBE

Yes, TRIBE was the Wordle answer on August 17, 2026 (Wordle #1885).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɹaɪb/

Noun

An ethnic group larger than a band or clan (and which may contain clans) but smaller than a nation (and which in turn may constitute a nation with other tribes). The tribe is often the basis of ethnic identity.

“the Twelve Tribes of Israel; Germanic tribes; Celtic tribes”

Noun

A tribal nation or people.

Verb

To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.

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 17, 2026 (#1885).

See the full page for that puzzle: August 17, 2026 (#1885).

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

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How TRIBE performs as a guess

TRIBE 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 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 109 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #630 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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___E T in the 1st position and E in the 5th position T__B_ T in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TRIBE 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.

5.34 Entropy (bits)
109 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.61 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TRIBE 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#630 Rank among openers
Opening with TRIBE left 1 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 3.59 average. It ranks #630 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
80
3 guesses
1,004
4 guesses
1,080
5 guesses
178
6 guesses
10
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
38%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B I R C H
T R I B E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TRIBE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TRIBE can come back 121 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

340 answers
145 answers
141 answers
133 answers
131 answers
122 answers
115 answers
84 answers
66 answers
63 answers
58 answers
51 answers
42 answers
39 answers
37 answers
36 answers
34 answers
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29 answers
26 answers
25 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1I1B3E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SALON CLEAN SLANE SOLAR COALY SHOUT

Strategy after playing TRIBE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TRIBE:

14% chance
Suggested:
SALON
6% chance
Suggested:
CLEAN
6% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.3% →
SALON 5.73 bits
6.1% →
CLEAN 5.17 bits
5.9% →
SLANE 4.70 bits
5.6% →
SOLAR 4.26 bits
5.5% →
COALY 5.06 bits
5.1% →
SHOUT 5.17 bits
4.8% →
SNAIL 4.81 bits
3.5% →
SLANT 4.92 bits
2.8% →
SONLY 4.53 bits
2.7% →
GRAND 4.14 bits

Research on TRIBE

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

Optimal play

Opening with TRIBE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #626 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.75 guesses at best and is rank #300 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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 TRYB.

Rhymes with BRIBE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TRIBE is a kind of group or nation.

Synonyms folk clan kin kindred

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TRIBE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 13 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 B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 75 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.7 of 5).

In a sentence

What tribe are you from?
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The whole tribe was there.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).