5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

TRIPS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɹɪps/

Noun

plural of trip

Noun

Three of a kind, especially if one of the three cards is in one's hand and the other two are on the board. Compare set (“three of a kind, especially with one card on the board and the other two in one's hand”).

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of trip

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 TRIPS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TRIPS 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 81.8% of games, misses completely in 18.2%, and leaves about 149 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #388 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__P_ T in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _R__S R in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ALONE COLEY SLANE HAOLE LIANE CLADE
Words starting with T Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.98 Entropy (bits)
149 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 82% of evaluated openers
0.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TRIPS 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
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#388 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TRIPS ranks #388 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
1,040
4 guesses
1,065
5 guesses
164
6 guesses
13
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IRST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
27%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

429
238
157
134
122
98
91
78
61
56
55
55
50
43
43
30
29
29
28
24
23
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18
18
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17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TRIPS:

18% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
10% chance
Suggested:
COLEY
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.2% →
ALONE 6.05 bits
10.1% →
COLEY 5.16 bits
6.7% →
SLANE 5.43 bits
5.7% →
HAOLE 5.40 bits
5.2% →
LIANE 5.05 bits
4.2% →
CLADE 4.91 bits
3.9% →
STANE 4.62 bits
3.3% →
CLONE 4.97 bits
2.6% →
SCRAE 4.49 bits
2.4% →
HEART 4.38 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1I1P3S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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