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TRIES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɹaɪz/

Noun

plural of try

Noun

plural of trie

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of try

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 TRIES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TRIES 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 89.2% of games, misses completely in 10.8%, and leaves about 83 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #405 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

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

T___S T in the 1st position and S in the 5th position T__E_ T in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _R__S R in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

COALY ANGLE SALON LORRY PLAIN ROANY
Words starting with T Words ending with S

First-turn measures

5.62 Entropy (bits)
83 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.5% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.32 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TRIES 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
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#405 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TRIES ranks #405 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
88
3 guesses
1,019
4 guesses
1,057
5 guesses
171
6 guesses
17
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:
EIRST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
37%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

127 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

255
184
119
110
98
80
79
78
73
66
63
59
58
49
48
43
41
38
33
32
29
27
27
25
23
22
22
21
20
19

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TRIES:

11% chance
Suggested:
COALY
8% chance
Suggested:
ANGLE
5% chance
Suggested:
SALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.8% →
COALY 5.68 bits
7.8% →
ANGLE 5.36 bits
5.0% →
SALON 4.92 bits
4.7% →
LORRY 5.01 bits
4.2% →
PLAIN 4.64 bits
3.4% →
ROANY 3.31 bits
3.4% →
DEARY 4.38 bits
3.3% →
CLOUT 4.95 bits
3.1% →
LEASH 4.36 bits
2.8% →
CROWD 4.09 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1I1E1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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