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TWIRL

Yes, TWIRL was the Wordle answer on January 3, 2024 (Wordle #928).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /twɜːl//twɝl//twøːl/

Noun

A movement where a person spins round elegantly; a pirouette.

Noun

Any rotating movement; a spin.

“The conductor gave his baton a twirl, and the orchestra began to play.”

Verb

To perform a twirl.

Verb

To rotate rapidly.

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: January 3, 2024 (#928).

See the full page for that puzzle: January 3, 2024 (#928).

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

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How TWIRL performs as a guess

TWIRL 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 84.4% of games, misses completely in 15.6%, and leaves about 157 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,819 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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___L T in the 1st position and L in the 5th position T__R_ T in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _W__L W in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TWIRL 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.

4.80 Entropy (bits)
157 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 71% of evaluated openers
1.15 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TWIRL 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,819 Rank among openers
Opening with TWIRL left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,819 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
934
4 guesses
1,142
5 guesses
202
6 guesses
15
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ILRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
29%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U I T
T W I R L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TWIRL in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TWIRL can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

370 answers
300 answers
233 answers
184 answers
116 answers
70 answers
67 answers
66 answers
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46 answers
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27 answers
20 answers
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17 answers
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12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1W4I1R1L1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SAYNE CANOE ALOSE SAUCE SINCE BEAST

Strategy after playing TWIRL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TWIRL:

16% chance
Suggested:
SAYNE
13% chance
Suggested:
CANOE
10% chance
Suggested:
ALOSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.6% →
SAYNE 5.83 bits
12.6% →
CANOE 5.36 bits
9.8% →
ALOSE 5.28 bits
7.8% →
SAUCE 5.61 bits
4.9% →
SINCE 5.04 bits
2.9% →
BEAST 4.54 bits
2.8% →
SCONE 4.92 bits
2.8% →
CHASE 4.77 bits
2.6% →
SANED 4.54 bits
2.4% →
SCALE 4.78 bits

Research on TWIRL

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

Optimal play

Opening with TWIRL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,123 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.78 guesses at best and is rank #973 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it TWURL.

Rhymes with PEARL SWIRL MERLE WHIRL WHORL

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TWIRL is a kind of bend or rotation.

Synonyms spin TWIST twisting kink SWIRL

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TWIRL sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.5 of 5).

In a sentence

Twirl around and let me see you.
© tatoeba.org contributor Eccles17 (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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).