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

TUBBY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 80.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtʌbi//ˈstʊbi/

Adjective

stout, rotund

Adjective

Resembling a tub

Noun

An overweight person.

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 TUBBY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TUBBY 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 60.5% of games, misses completely in 39.5%, and leaves about 464 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,662 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 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___Y T in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position T__B_ T in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TUBBY 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.

3.37 Entropy (bits)
464 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
80.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 5% of evaluated openers
2.57 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TUBBY 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.

3.88 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,662 Rank among openers
Opening with TUBBY left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.88 average. It ranks #13,662 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
647
4 guesses
1,249
5 guesses
391
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:
TU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
60%
Green tile
29%
All gray
40%

Feedback distribution

TUBBY can come back 64 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

938 answers
334 answers
217 answers
152 answers
105 answers
103 answers
81 answers
65 answers
45 answers
43 answers
37 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1U1B3B3Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Try next

RAISE SOARE SORAL SNORE ALONE RAINE

Strategy after playing TUBBY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TUBBY:

40% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
14% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
9% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

39.5% →
RAISE 6.10 bits
14.1% →
SOARE 5.66 bits
9.1% →
SORAL 4.88 bits
6.4% →
SNORE 5.20 bits
4.4% →
ALONE 5.36 bits
4.3% →
RAINE 5.28 bits
3.4% →
SLIER 4.85 bits
2.7% →
SCONE 4.66 bits
1.9% →
MARSE 2.90 bits
1.8% →
SATER 4.10 bits

Research on TUBBY

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

Optimal play

Opening with TUBBY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,851 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.06 guesses at best and is rank #6,847 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.88, at or below the proven-optimal 3.90, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it TUHBEE.

Rhymes with HUBBY

Related meanings

Synonyms fat

Opposites thin

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TUBBY 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).

In a sentence

My ex-wife started a new life with the tubby postman.
© tatoeba.org contributor maaster (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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).