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

TRIKE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɹaɪk/

Noun

A tricycle, typically that of a child.

Noun

A three-wheeled motorbike.

Verb

To tricycle; to travel by tricycle.

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 TRIKE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TRIKE 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 86.4% of games, misses completely in 13.6%, and leaves about 111 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,525 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.
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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__K_ T in the 1st position and K 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 TRIKE.

First-turn measures

All four describe TRIKE 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.

5.24 Entropy (bits)
111 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 93% of evaluated openers
0.71 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TRIKE 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,525 Rank among openers
Opening with TRIKE left 3 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 3.63 average. It ranks #2,525 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
950
4 guesses
1,138
5 guesses
181
6 guesses
15
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

TRIKE can come back 110 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

322 answers
153 answers
150 answers
144 answers
137 answers
131 answers
122 answers
90 answers
66 answers
61 answers
60 answers
55 answers
50 answers
40 answers
39 answers
38 answers
34 answers
34 answers
33 answers
31 answers
31 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
23 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1I1K5E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SOULY PENAL SAULT SOLAR COALY SHOUT

Strategy after playing TRIKE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TRIKE:

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

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.6% →
SOULY 5.60 bits
6.4% →
PENAL 5.00 bits
6.3% →
SAULT 4.78 bits
6.1% →
SOLAR 4.33 bits
5.8% →
COALY 5.13 bits
5.5% →
SHOUT 5.25 bits
5.1% →
SNAIL 4.89 bits
3.8% →
SLANT 4.85 bits
2.8% →
ARSON 3.87 bits
2.6% →
SHALT 3.90 bits

Research on TRIKE

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

Optimal play

Opening with TRIKE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,681 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.80 guesses at best and is rank #1,423 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 3.65, 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 TRYK. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TRIKE is a kind of vehicle.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TRIKE sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).