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

TRIDE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

strong and swift

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use TRIDE in a puzzle

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

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

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

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
38%
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:

332 answers
137 answers
136 answers
132 answers
124 answers
121 answers
101 answers
79 answers
64 answers
58 answers
53 answers
52 answers
43 answers
42 answers
39 answers
36 answers
34 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 4.86 bits
5.5% →
SOLAR 4.24 bits
5.2% →
SHOUT 5.20 bits
5.1% →
CAROM 5.23 bits
4.2% →
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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).