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

TUINA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of tui na.

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 TUINA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TUINA 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 86.5% of games, misses completely in 13.5%, and leaves about 141 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,251 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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 TUINA 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.

5.03 Entropy (bits)
141 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 85% of evaluated openers
0.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TUINA 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#3,251 Rank among openers
Opening with TUINA 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 3.64 average. It ranks #3,251 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
955
4 guesses
1,106
5 guesses
205
6 guesses
19
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

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AINTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
31%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

TUINA can come back 111 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

357 answers
321 answers
139 answers
115 answers
104 answers
97 answers
90 answers
88 answers
85 answers
84 answers
58 answers
57 answers
41 answers
37 answers
35 answers
32 answers
31 answers
31 answers
30 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1U1I1N1A1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing TUINA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TUINA:

15% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
14% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
6% chance
Suggested:
SCALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.0%
CARLE 5.59 bits
13.5%
SOLER 5.74 bits
5.9%
SCALE 5.01 bits
4.8%
SOLED 4.98 bits
4.4%
SOREL 5.35 bits
4.1%
PROLE 4.82 bits
3.8%
CLOSE 5.25 bits
3.7%
SOREL 4.67 bits
3.6%
MORSE 4.22 bits
3.5%
SOWER 4.79 bits

Research on TUINA

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

Optimal play

Opening with TUINA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,696 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,567 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, 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.

How it sounds

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