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

TROYS

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

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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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 TROYS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TROYS 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 84.3% of games, misses completely in 15.7%, and leaves about 131 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,539 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___S T in the 1st position and S in the 5th position T__Y_ T in the 1st position and Y 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 TROYS.

First-turn measures

All four describe TROYS 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.

4.96 Entropy (bits)
131 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 82% of evaluated openers
0.98 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TROYS 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,539 Rank among openers
Opening with TROYS left 1 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 #2,539 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
968
4 guesses
1,150
5 guesses
159
6 guesses
22
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
1 vowels
Common:
ORST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
25%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

TROYS can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

372 answers
175 answers
170 answers
145 answers
134 answers
127 answers
108 answers
96 answers
83 answers
68 answers
58 answers
54 answers
45 answers
45 answers
44 answers
43 answers
42 answers
38 answers
34 answers
29 answers
26 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1O1Y4S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

ALINE RAILE SLANE LEANT LAIDE CLINE

Strategy after playing TROYS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TROYS:

16% chance
Suggested:
ALINE
7% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.7% →
ALINE 6.26 bits
7.4% →
RAILE 5.16 bits
7.2% →
SLANE 5.55 bits
6.1% →
LEANT 5.37 bits
5.6% →
LAIDE 4.81 bits
5.3% →
CLINE 5.16 bits
4.5% →
CADIE 4.98 bits
4.0% →
LEANT 4.76 bits
3.5% →
CORER 4.31 bits
2.9% →
SHAPE 4.57 bits

Research on TROYS

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

Optimal play

Opening with TROYS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,385 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with TROYS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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 TROYZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TROYS is a kind of weight.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TROYS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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).