TWEET
Yes, TWEET was the Wordle answer on April 23, 2026 (Wordle #1769).
As an opener, it rules out about 84.1% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈtwiːt/[ˈtʰwɪi̯t]
- Noun
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The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
- Noun
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An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.
- Verb
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To produce a short high-pitched sound, similar to that of certain birds.
- Verb
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To post an entry to Twitter.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: April 23, 2026 (#1769).
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See what the public sample says →How TWEET performs as a guess
TWEET 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 65.9% of games, misses completely in 34.1%, and leaves about 377 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,069 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.91 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe TWEET 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How TWEET 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches TWEET in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
TWEET can come back 73 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for TWEET; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing TWEET
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to TWEET.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing TWEET:
Research on TWEET
Game-tree analysis and word research for TWEET, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with TWEET, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.89 guesses and ranks #13,706 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 TWEET can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.91; proven optimal play reaches 3.89. 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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, TWEET is a kind of sound or post.
Synonyms squeeze PINCH twitch nip
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- TWEET sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 15 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 62 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.7 of 5).
In a sentence
How can your cat tweet?
I think the president's tweet speaks for itself.
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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).