5-letter words with T as the 1st letter and I as the 3rd letter

Roughly one answer for every four matches makes this pattern unusually generous for Wordle. Slot two splits the group four ways: TR takes 27 words, TW 16, TH 13 and TA 9. S closes 20 matches and E closes 15, while the average Scrabble score sits at 7.5.

How the T-I list breaks down

• Eighty tournament words hold T in slot one and I in slot three.
• TR accounts for 27 of them; TW adds 16, TH 13 and TA 9.
• The Wordle answer list claims 21 of the 80, roughly a quarter.
• Twenty matches close on S and fifteen on E.
• Twixt is the only entry above 14 points, at 15.

Which T-I words are Wordle answers?

Twenty-one of the 80 are answers. TR supplies eight of them: triad, trial, tribe, trice, trick, tried, tripe and trite. TH supplies six more, thick, thief, thigh, thing, think and third.

TW accounts for five with twice, twine, twirl, twist and twixt, and the final two are singletons, taint under TA and tying under TY. Two digraphs, TR and TH, hand Wordle 14 of the 21 answers between them.

What is the highest score in this T-I set?

Twixt is the one match above 14 points, reaching 15 on the back of an 8-point X. Thick sits next on 14, then think, thigh and thilk on 12, against an average of 7.5. That 14 comes from the 4-point H and the 3-point C, with the fixed T and I adding one each.

Coverage differs from list to list: Collins carries 76 of the 80 matches, NWL2023 keeps 59 and ENABLE keeps 53. Triff, for instance, is a Collins-only spelling, and tyins is an NWL2023-only word that Wordle will not even accept as a guess. Confirm an unfamiliar spelling against your game's word list.