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TUFFE

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

No dictionary definition for TUFFE is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 88.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 TUFFE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TUFFE 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 74.2% of games, misses completely in 25.8%, and leaves about 283 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,069 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

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

T___E T in the 1st position and E in the 5th position T__F_ T in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _U__E U in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TUFFE 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.

3.92 Entropy (bits)
283 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TUFFE 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#13,069 Rank among openers
Opening with TUFFE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.85 average. It ranks #13,069 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
667
4 guesses
1,274
5 guesses
347
6 guesses
21
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
2 vowels
Common:
ETU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
32%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

TUFFE can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

612 answers
371 answers
258 answers
194 answers
131 answers
99 answers
98 answers
67 answers
50 answers
47 answers
41 answers
40 answers
32 answers
30 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
21 answers
19 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1U1F4F4E1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

CAROL SOLAR SORAL ROAST SLART SLUNG

Strategy after playing TUFFE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TUFFE:

26% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
16% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
11% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.8% →
CAROL 5.94 bits
15.6% →
SOLAR 5.17 bits
10.9% →
SORAL 4.82 bits
8.2% →
ROAST 5.36 bits
5.5% →
SLART 5.05 bits
4.2% →
SLUNG 4.69 bits
4.1% →
SHALY 4.15 bits
2.8% →
RAINY 4.77 bits
2.1% →
SLANT 4.20 bits
2.0% →
SONAR 4.74 bits

Research on TUFFE

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

Optimal play

Opening with TUFFE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #13,033 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.04 guesses at best and is rank #6,626 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.85, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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 TUHF. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.