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

TYEES

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of tyee

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

Use TYEES in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.5% 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 TYEES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TYEES 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 81.1% of games, misses completely in 18.9%, and leaves about 179 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,817 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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 TYEES 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.

4.55 Entropy (bits)
179 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TYEES 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#10,817 Rank among openers
Opening with TYEES left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,817 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
747
4 guesses
1,257
5 guesses
274
6 guesses
24

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
27%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

TYEES can come back 75 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

450 answers
269 answers
188 answers
161 answers
157 answers
141 answers
99 answers
97 answers
74 answers
65 answers
60 answers
38 answers
36 answers
35 answers
32 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1Y4E1E1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing TYEES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TYEES:

19% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
11% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
8% chance
Suggested:
DAILY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.9% →
CAIRN 6.06 bits
11.3% →
RAILE 5.21 bits
7.9% →
DAILY 4.38 bits
6.8% →
DROIT 4.96 bits
6.6% →
SNARL 5.04 bits
5.9% →
RAILE 4.17 bits
4.2% →
STAIR 4.49 bits
4.1% →
SORAL 4.40 bits
3.1% →
RAILE 4.59 bits
2.7% →
TRAIN 4.47 bits

Research on TYEES

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

Optimal play

Opening with TYEES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,063 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 TYEES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78; proven optimal play reaches 3.77. 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).