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TWEED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.9% 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).

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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 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 71.7% of games, misses completely in 28.3%, and leaves about 287 possible answers on average.

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

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TWEED 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.

4.17 Entropy (bits)
287 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.9% 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 opening guess: previous 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,922 Rank among openers
Opening with TWEED left 2 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 3.78 average. It 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 (3.46 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

TWEED can come back 93 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

671 answers
315 answers
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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.

Try next

CAROL SOARE SAINT SOLAR SLART DAILY

Strategy after playing TWEED

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

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.

28.3% →
CAROL 5.92 bits
13.3% →
SOARE 5.12 bits
11.2% →
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
2.1% →
ROANY 4.54 bits

Research on TWEED

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

Optimal play

Opening with TWEED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,229 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 TWEED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78; proven optimal play reaches 3.77. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 TWEED.

Rhymes with SPEED BREED FREED GREED BLEED

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TWEED is a kind of material or trousers.

Synonyms WHITE flannel

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TWEED sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 11, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 69 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.

In a sentence

He is dressed in an old tweed suit.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Tom is wearing an old tweed suit.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).