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

TWEER

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

comparative form of twee: more twee

Noun

Alternative spelling of tuyere.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Related meanings

Synonyms refined

Use TWEER in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.0% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How TWEER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TWEER 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 77.2% of games, misses completely in 22.8%, and leaves about 214 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,455 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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 TWEER 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.

4.53 Entropy (bits)
214 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TWEER 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#8,455 Rank among openers
Opening with TWEER solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,455 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
786
4 guesses
1,218
5 guesses
260
6 guesses
17

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
29%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

TWEER can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

543 answers
246 answers
225 answers
220 answers
131 answers
91 answers
86 answers
68 answers
61 answers
47 answers
46 answers
41 answers
35 answers
32 answers
32 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1W4E1E1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing TWEER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TWEER:

23% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
9% chance
Suggested:
COALY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.8% →
SLAIN 5.87 bits
10.3% →
SLANE 5.23 bits
9.4% →
COALY 5.05 bits
9.2% →
SAINT 5.39 bits
5.5% →
SPADE 4.38 bits
3.8% →
SLATE 4.77 bits
3.6% →
SOILY 3.62 bits
2.9% →
SAINT 4.54 bits
2.6% →
ALIEN 4.53 bits
2.0% →
RAINY 4.16 bits

Research on TWEER

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

Optimal play

Opening with TWEER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,404 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 TWEER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0).