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

TROIS

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

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

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

Meaning and pronunciation

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

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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 TROIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TROIS 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 #169 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.56 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 TROIS 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 TROIS 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
#169 Rank among openers
Opening with TROIS 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 #169 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
1,061
4 guesses
1,051
5 guesses
153
6 guesses
14
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
31%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

TROIS can come back 119 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

314 answers
167 answers
148 answers
140 answers
131 answers
102 answers
90 answers
80 answers
71 answers
62 answers
57 answers
56 answers
53 answers
53 answers
51 answers
42 answers
39 answers
38 answers
35 answers
33 answers
31 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1O1I1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Strategy after playing TROIS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TROIS:

13% chance
Suggested:
LANCE
7% chance
Suggested:
RAREE
6% chance
Suggested:
SHALE

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
6.2%
SHALE 5.47 bits
5.9%
CLINE 5.27 bits
5.5%
COLEY 4.98 bits
4.3%
CLADE 5.11 bits
3.8%
CORER 4.33 bits
3.4%
PLANE 4.73 bits
3.0%
CLADE 4.73 bits
2.6%
CLADE 4.49 bits

Research on TROIS

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

Optimal play

Opening with TROIS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #748 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 #157 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 3.63, 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 TWAH.

Rhymes with PASHA VOILA SCHWA

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TROIS 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).