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TRIDE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

strong and swift

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 TRIDE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TRIDE 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 86.1% of games, misses completely in 13.9%, and leaves about 102 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #226 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 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 TRIDE 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.

5.47 Entropy (bits)
102 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 98% of evaluated openers
0.48 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TRIDE 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.

3.57 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#226 Rank among openers
Opening with TRIDE left 2 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 3.57 average. It ranks #226 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
85
3 guesses
1,018
4 guesses
1,087
5 guesses
149
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:
EIRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
39%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

TRIDE can come back 128 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

329 answers
136 answers
135 answers
131 answers
124 answers
120 answers
101 answers
79 answers
64 answers
58 answers
53 answers
52 answers
43 answers
42 answers
38 answers
36 answers
33 answers
32 answers
30 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
25 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1I1D2E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing TRIDE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TRIDE:

14% chance
Suggested:
SALON
6% chance
Suggested:
PENAL
6% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.9%
SALON 5.81 bits
5.7%
PENAL 4.95 bits
5.7%
SAULT 4.87 bits
5.5%
SOLAR 4.25 bits
5.2%
SHOUT 5.20 bits
5.1%
CAROM 5.23 bits
4.3%
SNAIL 4.93 bits
3.3%
SLANT 4.96 bits
2.7%
SONLY 4.45 bits
2.4%
CANOE 4.01 bits

Research on TRIDE

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

Optimal play

Opening with TRIDE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #157 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 TRIDE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.57, at or below the proven-optimal 3.60, 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 TRYD. 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.