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

TWIER

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of tuyere.

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

Use TWIER in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.6% 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 TWIER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TWIER 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 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 130 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,266 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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 TWIER 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.

5.11 Entropy (bits)
130 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TWIER 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#3,266 Rank among openers
Opening with TWIER left 1 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 3.64 average. It ranks #3,266 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
83
3 guesses
917
4 guesses
1,126
5 guesses
215
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
33%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

TWIER can come back 119 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

356 answers
245 answers
161 answers
136 answers
134 answers
122 answers
97 answers
73 answers
65 answers
65 answers
57 answers
47 answers
44 answers
44 answers
33 answers
32 answers
31 answers
31 answers
29 answers
29 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1W4I1E1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing TWIER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TWIER:

15% chance
Suggested:
SALON
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
7% chance
Suggested:
SOAPY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.9% →
SALON 5.69 bits
10.3% →
SLANE 5.47 bits
6.8% →
SOAPY 5.08 bits
5.7% →
CEASE 4.64 bits
5.6% →
SHOUT 5.22 bits
5.1% →
SNAIL 4.91 bits
4.1% →
SLATE 5.08 bits
3.1% →
SOAPY 3.59 bits
2.7% →
ALONE 4.24 bits
2.7% →
COALY 4.39 bits

Research on TWIER

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

Optimal play

Opening with TWIER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,972 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 TWIER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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).