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

TUYER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of tuyere (part of a blast furnace)

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 TUYER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TUYER 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 88.3% of games, misses completely in 11.7%, and leaves about 118 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,071 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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 TUYER 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.

5.10 Entropy (bits)
118 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 88% of evaluated openers
0.85 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TUYER 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,071 Rank among openers
Opening with TUYER left 2 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 3.67 average. It ranks #5,071 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
887
4 guesses
1,169
5 guesses
211
6 guesses
18
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
2 vowels
Common:
ERTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
30%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

TUYER can come back 102 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

277 answers
265 answers
157 answers
143 answers
135 answers
131 answers
95 answers
94 answers
78 answers
77 answers
50 answers
46 answers
41 answers
41 answers
39 answers
36 answers
34 answers
33 answers
31 answers
30 answers
29 answers
29 answers
27 answers
26 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1U1Y4E1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing TUYER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TUYER:

12% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
7% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.7%
SLAIN 6.06 bits
11.2%
SLANE 5.45 bits
6.6%
CAIRN 4.90 bits
6.0%
DAILY 4.65 bits
5.7%
HOIST 5.29 bits
5.5%
GRACE 4.54 bits
4.0%
SOILY 3.26 bits
4.0%
SHALT 5.07 bits
3.3%
ALINE 4.10 bits
3.2%
SLUNK 4.70 bits

Research on TUYER

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

Optimal play

Opening with TUYER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #3,055 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 TUYER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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 TOYUR. 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.