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

TRIOS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of trio

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 TRIOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TRIOS 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 86.8% of games, misses completely in 13.2%, and leaves about 105 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #117 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.56 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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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__O_ T in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _R__S R in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in TRIOS.

First-turn measures

All four describe TRIOS 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.

5.33 Entropy (bits)
105 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.62 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TRIOS 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.

3.56 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#117 Rank among openers
Opening with TRIOS 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 3.56 average. It ranks #117 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
1,081
4 guesses
1,032
5 guesses
155
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:
IORST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
30%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

TRIOS can come back 116 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

314 answers
167 answers
160 answers
148 answers
124 answers
102 answers
80 answers
78 answers
71 answers
69 answers
57 answers
53 answers
52 answers
44 answers
43 answers
39 answers
38 answers
38 answers
38 answers
33 answers
31 answers
29 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1I1O1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Try next

LANCE RAREE CLADE SHALE LIANE PLANE

Strategy after playing TRIOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TRIOS:

13% chance
Suggested:
LANCE
7% chance
Suggested:
RAREE
7% chance
Suggested:
CLADE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.2% →
LANCE 6.06 bits
7.0% →
RAREE 5.04 bits
6.7% →
CLADE 5.18 bits
6.2% →
SHALE 5.47 bits
5.2% →
LIANE 5.01 bits
4.3% →
CLADE 5.11 bits
3.4% →
PLANE 4.73 bits
3.3% →
COLEY 4.20 bits
3.0% →
CLADE 4.73 bits
2.9% →
GLACE 4.96 bits

Research on TRIOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with TRIOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #697 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.73 guesses at best and is rank #134 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.56, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it TRYOHS. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TRIOS is a kind of figure or piece.

Synonyms THREE iii triple trinity LEASH trey

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TRIOS 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.5 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).