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

TRULL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɹʌl/

Noun

A set of three special trump cards used in some Tarock games, having a higher value than the other trumps.

Noun

A female prostitute or harlot.

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 TRULL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TRULL 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 80.4% of games, misses completely in 19.6%, and leaves about 192 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,565 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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 TRULL 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.

4.47 Entropy (bits)
192 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 50% of evaluated openers
1.47 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TRULL 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,565 Rank among openers
Opening with TRULL left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,565 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
895
4 guesses
1,177
5 guesses
212
6 guesses
25
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LRTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
33%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

TRULL can come back 78 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

465 answers
293 answers
210 answers
187 answers
161 answers
103 answers
87 answers
68 answers
59 answers
57 answers
57 answers
51 answers
50 answers
47 answers
46 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1U1L1L1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing TRULL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TRULL:

20% chance
Suggested:
SAINE
12% chance
Suggested:
SANED
9% chance
Suggested:
SAICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.6%
SAINE 6.20 bits
12.3%
SANED 5.22 bits
8.8%
SAICE 5.54 bits
7.9%
SLANE 5.37 bits
6.8%
DIANE 5.13 bits
4.3%
MAISE 4.55 bits
3.7%
SATEM 4.64 bits
2.9%
SAINE 4.84 bits
2.5%
NAICE 4.62 bits
2.4%
PAISE 4.73 bits

Research on TRULL

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

Optimal play

Opening with TRULL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,597 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.89 guesses at best and is rank #3,980 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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 TRUHL.

Rhymes with SKULL SCULL STULL

Familiarity and learning

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