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

TRIFA

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

No dictionary definition for TRIFA is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use TRIFA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% 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

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 TRIFA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TRIFA 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 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 142 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,531 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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 TRIFA 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.

4.95 Entropy (bits)
142 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TRIFA 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#2,531 Rank among openers
Opening with TRIFA left 2 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 3.63 average. It ranks #2,531 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
952
4 guesses
1,125
5 guesses
195
6 guesses
11

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
28%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

TRIFA can come back 108 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

354 answers
287 answers
176 answers
135 answers
126 answers
123 answers
117 answers
92 answers
67 answers
58 answers
52 answers
49 answers
47 answers
39 answers
38 answers
34 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
23 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1I1F4A1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing TRIFA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TRIFA:

15% chance
Suggested:
SOCLE
12% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
7% chance
Suggested:
SORER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.9%
SOCLE 5.92 bits
12.1%
SLANE 5.48 bits
7.4%
SORER 5.14 bits
5.7%
SERRY 4.53 bits
5.3%
SONDE 4.97 bits
5.2%
SHULE 4.93 bits
4.9%
SHULE 5.15 bits
3.9%
CLONE 4.90 bits
2.8%
SONDE 4.36 bits
2.4%
SCONE 3.94 bits

Research on TRIFA

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

Optimal play

Opening with TRIFA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,878 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best and is rank #1,196 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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).