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

TSADE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈ(t)sɑːdi//ˈ(t)sɑːdeɪ/

Noun

The eighteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use TSADE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.9% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How TSADE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TSADE 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 88.5% of games, misses completely in 11.5%, and leaves about 99 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,376 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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 TSADE 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)
99 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TSADE 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#1,376 Rank among openers
Opening with TSADE 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 3.61 average. It ranks #1,376 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
84
3 guesses
937
4 guesses
1,163
5 guesses
154
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
34%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

TSADE can come back 113 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

274 answers
184 answers
175 answers
130 answers
111 answers
99 answers
84 answers
70 answers
69 answers
65 answers
63 answers
63 answers
61 answers
59 answers
52 answers
52 answers
43 answers
40 answers
38 answers
35 answers
32 answers
29 answers
27 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1S1A1D2E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing TSADE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TSADE:

11% chance
Suggested:
CRONY
8% chance
Suggested:
LINER
7% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.5% →
CRONY 5.66 bits
7.7% →
LINER 5.15 bits
7.3% →
CAROL 5.42 bits
5.5% →
SOULY 4.79 bits
4.7% →
RIONE 4.42 bits
4.2% →
NORTH 4.87 bits
3.5% →
LAGER 4.40 bits
2.9% →
SHIRT 4.43 bits
2.9% →
ROUND 4.84 bits
2.7% →
PRONE 4.16 bits

Research on TSADE

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

Optimal play

Opening with TSADE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,709 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 TSADE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).