TUBAL
TUBAL is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.
As an opener, it rules out about 92.5% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈtjuːbəl//ˈtubəl/
- Adjective
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Of or pertaining to a tube, especially an anatomical one.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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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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See what the public sample says →How TUBAL performs as a guess
TUBAL 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 80.3% of games, misses completely in 19.7%, and leaves about 178 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,319 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe TUBAL 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 TUBAL 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 TUBAL in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
TUBAL can come back 108 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 TUBAL; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing TUBAL
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to TUBAL.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing TUBAL:
Research on TUBAL
Game-tree analysis and word research for TUBAL, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with TUBAL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,284 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.78 guesses at best and is rank #877 of the 7,453 openers that can still 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- TUBAL sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
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).