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TWIST

Yes, TWIST was the Wordle answer on November 24, 2024 (Wordle #1254).

As an opener, it rules out about 85.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /twɪst/[tw̥ɪst]

Noun

A twisting force.

Noun

Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.

Verb

To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.

Verb

To join together by twining one part around another.

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: November 24, 2024 (#1254).

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

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How TWIST performs as a guess

TWIST is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 66.2% of games, misses completely in 33.8%, and leaves about 336 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,556 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

T___T T in the 1st position and T in the 5th position T__S_ T in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _W__T W in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE LINER PARLE CRANE EARTH ALURE
Words starting with T Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.00 Entropy (bits)
336 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 23% of evaluated openers
1.95 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TWIST 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#9,556 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TWIST ranks #9,556 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
798
4 guesses
1,212
5 guesses
271
6 guesses
22
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
31%
All gray
34%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S H U N T
M I D S T
T W I S T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TWIST in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

79 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

798
211
194
127
108
99
98
87
77
64
42
36
36
33
31
20
20
17
15
14
13
12
11
11
10
10
9
9
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TWIST:

34% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
9% chance
Suggested:
LINER
8% chance
Suggested:
PARLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.8% →
CARLE 6.19 bits
8.9% →
LINER 5.29 bits
8.2% →
PARLE 5.42 bits
5.4% →
CRANE 5.07 bits
4.6% →
EARTH 5.28 bits
4.2% →
ALURE 5.07 bits
4.2% →
HAOLE 4.94 bits
3.7% →
DROLE 5.24 bits
3.3% →
ROATE 4.41 bits
2.7% →
PORAE 5.05 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1W4I1S1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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