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

TYROS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of tyro

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How TYROS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TYROS 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 84.3% of games, misses completely in 15.7%, and leaves about 140 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,277 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___S T in the 1st position and S in the 5th position T__O_ T in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _Y__S Y in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TYROS 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.

4.92 Entropy (bits)
140 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 79% of evaluated openers
1.03 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TYROS 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,277 Rank among openers
Opening with TYROS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #2,277 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
993
4 guesses
1,115
5 guesses
170
6 guesses
22
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ORST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
20%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

TYROS can come back 97 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

372 answers
249 answers
170 answers
147 answers
145 answers
122 answers
96 answers
92 answers
56 answers
55 answers
47 answers
46 answers
44 answers
44 answers
39 answers
38 answers
37 answers
34 answers
34 answers
30 answers
29 answers
29 answers
25 answers
25 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1Y4R1O1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

ALINE LAIDE SLANE CLINE LEANT GRADE

Strategy after playing TYROS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TYROS:

16% chance
Suggested:
ALINE
10% chance
Suggested:
LAIDE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.7% →
ALINE 6.26 bits
10.5% →
LAIDE 5.23 bits
7.2% →
SLANE 5.55 bits
6.2% →
CLINE 5.39 bits
6.1% →
LEANT 5.37 bits
5.1% →
LAIDE 4.70 bits
4.0% →
LEANT 4.76 bits
3.9% →
GRADE 4.40 bits
2.4% →
ARIEL 4.46 bits
2.3% →
SHAPE 4.71 bits

Research on TYROS

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

Optimal play

Opening with TYROS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,310 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 TYROS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it TYROHZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TYROS is a kind of actor or worker.

Synonyms initiate beginner novice

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TYROS 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); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).