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

TYRED

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Having a certain number, or type, of tyre.

Verb

simple past and past participle of tyre

Alternative forms: tired

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

Use TYRED in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% 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 TYRED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TYRED 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 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 133 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,229 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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 TYRED 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.

5.01 Entropy (bits)
133 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TYRED 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,229 Rank among openers
Opening with TYRED left 3 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 3.66 average. It ranks #4,229 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
900
4 guesses
1,164
5 guesses
208
6 guesses
11

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
30%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

TYRED can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

340 answers
259 answers
171 answers
153 answers
147 answers
106 answers
104 answers
101 answers
63 answers
55 answers
49 answers
43 answers
41 answers
38 answers
35 answers
35 answers
33 answers
31 answers
28 answers
28 answers
25 answers
25 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1Y4R1E1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing TYRED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TYRED:

14% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
7% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.3% →
SLAIN 6.19 bits
10.9% →
SLANE 5.42 bits
7.2% →
SAINT 5.40 bits
6.4% →
ARSON 5.02 bits
6.2% →
SOILY 4.47 bits
4.4% →
PRASE 4.51 bits
4.4% →
SOLAR 3.59 bits
4.2% →
SHALT 5.12 bits
2.6% →
NAVEL 4.07 bits
2.3% →
ANILE 4.43 bits

Research on TYRED

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

Optimal play

Opening with TYRED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,813 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 TYRED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66; proven optimal play reaches 3.65. 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TYRED sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).