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TWEED

Yes, TWEED was the Wordle answer on October 18, 2021 (Wordle #121).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /twiːd/

Noun

A coarse woolen fabric used for clothing.

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: October 18, 2021 (#121).

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

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How TWEED performs as a guess

TWEED is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 71.8% of games, misses completely in 28.2%, and leaves about 284 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,922 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

T___D T in the 1st position and D in the 5th position T__E_ T in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _W__D W in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL SOARE SAINT SOLAR SLART DAILY
Words starting with T Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.17 Entropy (bits)
284 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 31% of evaluated openers
1.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TWEED 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,922 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TWEED ranks #10,922 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
714
4 guesses
1,260
5 guesses
298
6 guesses
16
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
29%
All gray
28%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L E E T
T W E E D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TWEED in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

93 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

664
314
266
124
104
75
74
69
64
51
42
33
30
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27
24
24
24
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10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TWEED:

28% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
13% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
11% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.2% →
CAROL 5.92 bits
13.3% →
SOARE 5.12 bits
11.3% →
SAINT 5.37 bits
5.3% →
SOLAR 4.38 bits
4.4% →
SLART 4.66 bits
3.2% →
DAILY 4.81 bits
3.1% →
SONAR 4.67 bits
2.9% →
RAINE 4.54 bits
2.7% →
ALURE 4.40 bits
2.2% →
ROANY 4.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1W4E1E1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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