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TRUST

Yes, TRUST was the Wordle answer on November 16, 2023 (Wordle #880).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɹʌst/[t͡ʃʰɹ̥ʌst]/tɹɐst/

Noun

Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.

“He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.”

Noun

Dependence upon something in the future; hope.

Verb

To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.

“We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.”

Verb

To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.

“In God We Trust”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: November 16, 2023 (#880).

See the full page for that puzzle: November 16, 2023 (#880).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How TRUST performs as a guess

TRUST is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 75.3% of games, misses completely in 24.7%, and leaves about 224 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,735 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

T___T T in the 1st position and T in the 5th position T__S_ T in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _R__T R in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in TRUST.

First-turn measures

All four describe TRUST 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.

4.52 Entropy (bits)
224 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 53% of evaluated openers
1.43 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TRUST 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,735 Rank among openers
Opening with TRUST left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,735 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
905
4 guesses
1,153
5 guesses
217
6 guesses
23
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:
RSTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
34%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U I T
C R U S T
T R U S T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TRUST in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TRUST can come back 96 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

586 answers
286 answers
167 answers
155 answers
105 answers
83 answers
75 answers
68 answers
67 answers
67 answers
51 answers
50 answers
50 answers
41 answers
31 answers
29 answers
22 answers
21 answers
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17 answers
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13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1U1S1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

ALONE LAIDE PLANE DIANE MAILE HAOLE

Strategy after playing TRUST

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TRUST:

25% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
12% chance
Suggested:
LAIDE
7% chance
Suggested:
PLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.7% →
ALONE 6.18 bits
12.0% →
LAIDE 5.11 bits
7.0% →
PLANE 5.48 bits
6.5% →
DIANE 5.20 bits
4.4% →
MAILE 4.53 bits
3.5% →
HAOLE 5.17 bits
3.2% →
ALONE 4.73 bits
2.9% →
SPANE 4.43 bits
2.8% →
HAOLE 4.65 bits
2.8% →
LIANE 4.59 bits

Research on TRUST

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

Optimal play

Opening with TRUST, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,129 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.88 guesses at best and is rank #3,820 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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 TRUHST.

Rhymes with CRUST BUSED BRUST

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TRUST is a kind of property or certainty.

Synonyms believe hope FAITH confidence desire commit

Opposites distrust mistrust

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TRUST sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 135 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 29 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.

In a sentence

I trust you with it.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I trust all of you.
© tatoeba.org contributor warikdigital (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).