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TWANG

Yes, TWANG was the Wordle answer on August 18, 2022 (Wordle #425).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtwæŋ/[ˈtʰwæŋ]/ˈtweɪ̯ŋ/

Noun

The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument.

Noun

A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars.

Verb

To produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go.

Verb

To have a nasal sound.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: August 18, 2022 (#425).

See the full page for that puzzle: August 18, 2022 (#425).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How TWANG performs as a guess

TWANG 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 76.2% of games, misses completely in 23.8%, and leaves about 224 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,629 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___G T in the 1st position and G in the 5th position T__N_ T in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _W__G W in the 2nd position and G in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TWANG 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.

4.39 Entropy (bits)
224 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 44% of evaluated openers
1.56 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TWANG 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.66 Spread of game lengths
#4,629 Rank among openers
Opening with TWANG left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.66 means those games clustered within about 0.66 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,629 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
870
4 guesses
1,255
5 guesses
165
6 guesses
10
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
1 vowels
Common:
ANT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
26%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
C H A N T
T W A N G

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TWANG in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TWANG can come back 86 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

564 answers
272 answers
225 answers
139 answers
138 answers
104 answers
102 answers
78 answers
64 answers
60 answers
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53 answers
40 answers
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29 answers
26 answers
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21 answers
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17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1W4A1N1G2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SLIER SOREL SHIER SLICE SILER CARLE

Strategy after playing TWANG

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TWANG:

24% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
11% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
9% chance
Suggested:
SHIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.8% →
SLIER 6.04 bits
11.5% →
SOREL 5.41 bits
9.5% →
SHIER 5.43 bits
5.9% →
SLICE 5.15 bits
5.8% →
SILER 5.11 bits
4.4% →
CARLE 4.72 bits
4.3% →
ROULE 5.43 bits
3.3% →
CANOE 4.57 bits
2.7% →
SHOER 4.84 bits
2.5% →
ROUSE 4.57 bits

Research on TWANG

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

Optimal play

Opening with TWANG, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,867 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,255 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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 TWAHNG.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TWANG is a kind of sound or quality.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TWANG 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 sound (3.6 of 5).

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).