TRUCE
TRUCE is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /tɹuːs//tɹus//ˈtɹʉs/
- Noun
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A period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties.
- Noun
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An agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time.
“He asked for a truce with his school enemy for five days.”
- Verb
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To come to an agreement to cease fighting.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English trewes, triwes, trues, plural of trewe, triewe, true (“faithfulness, assurance, pact”), from Old English trēowa, singularized plural of trēow, trȳw (“faith; pledge; agreement”), from Proto-West Germanic *treuwu, from Proto-Germanic *trewwō (compare Dutch trouw, German Treue, Danish tro, French trêve [< Germanic]), noun form of *triwwiz (“trusty, faithful”). More at true.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it TROOS.
Rhymes with ABUSE LOOSE JUICE GOOSE MOOSE
Related meanings
Synonyms armistice
In a sentence
The truce didn't last long.
The truce did not last long.
Use TRUCE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 95.6% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #610
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TRUCE appeared in “AAH, ENOUGH!” (blue group).
How TRUCE performs as a guess
TRUCE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 86.7% of games, misses completely in 13.3%, and leaves about 106 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #260 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe TRUCE 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How TRUCE 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches TRUCE in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
TRUCE can come back 135 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for TRUCE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing TRUCE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to TRUCE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing TRUCE:
Research on TRUCE
Game-tree analysis and word research for TRUCE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with TRUCE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.61 guesses and ranks #369 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.75 guesses at best and is rank #358 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.57, at or below the proven-optimal 3.61, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- TRUCE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 10, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 46 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).