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TWIST

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

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.

Etymology

From Middle English twist, from Old English *twist, in compounds (e.g. mæsttwist (“a rope; stay”), candeltwist (“a wick”)), from Proto-Germanic *twistaz, a derivative of *twi- (“two-”) (compare also twine, between, betwixt). Related to Saterland Frisian Twist (“discord”), Dutch twist (“twist; strife; discord”), German Low German Twist (“strife; discord”), German Zwist (“turmoil; strife; discord”), Swedish tvist (“quarrel; dispute”), Icelandic tvistur (“deuce”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it TWIHST.

Rhymes with EXIST WRIST GRIST TRYST FRIST

Related meanings

Synonyms turn construction wind pull device spin

In a sentence

You always twist what I say.
© tatoeba.org contributor neron (CC BY 2.0 FR)
They often twist the truth.
© tatoeba.org contributor Nuel (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use TWIST in a puzzle

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

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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).

See the full page for that puzzle: November 24, 2024 (#1254).

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TWIST in Connections

12 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How TWIST performs as a guess

TWIST is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 66.1% of games, misses completely in 33.9%, and leaves about 341 possible answers on average.

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

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TWIST 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.

4.00 Entropy (bits)
341 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#9,556 Rank among openers
Opening with TWIST left 2 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 3.75 average. It 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

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

TWIST can come back 79 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

808 answers
213 answers
197 answers
128 answers
108 answers
99 answers
99 answers
88 answers
78 answers
64 answers
43 answers
37 answers
36 answers
36 answers
31 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

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.

Try next

CARLE LINER PARLE CRANE EARTH ALURE

Strategy after playing TWIST

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

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.

33.9% →
CARLE 6.19 bits
8.9% →
LINER 5.30 bits
8.3% →
PARLE 5.43 bits
5.4% →
CRANE 5.06 bits
4.5% →
EARTH 5.28 bits
4.2% →
ALURE 5.07 bits
4.2% →
HAOLE 4.93 bits
3.7% →
DROLE 5.24 bits
3.3% →
ROATE 4.45 bits
2.7% →
PORAE 5.05 bits

Research on TWIST

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

Optimal play

Opening with TWIST, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,746 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.95 guesses at best and is rank #5,278 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TWIST sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 17 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.6 of 5).

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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).