5-Letter Word

TECHY

Easily irritated or annoyed

T1
E2
C3
H4
Y5
Letter positions
Word
techy
Position 1
t
Position 2
e
Position 3
c
Position 4
h
Position 5
y
Structure
Vowel count
1
Consonant count
4
Unique letters
5
Repeated letters
No
Vowel positions
2
Game use
Wordle friendly
No
Scrabble score
13

Pattern Frequency

FilterWords% of 12,478
Words with 1 vowel (same as this word)3,73629.9%
Vowels at position 22,02216.2%
Words with no repeated letters8,01364.2%

Letter-Position Frequency

LetterPositionWords% of dataset
T17876.3%
E21,57212.6%
C33733.0%
H42241.8%
Y51,25410.0%

Wordle Utility — Tier 3 — Weak opener

No repeated letters
Yes
Vowel count ≥ 2
No 1 vowel
No low-frequency tiles (Q, X, Z, J)
Yes

Tier 3 — Weak opener pool: 2,502 of 12,478 words (20.1%)

Scrabble Value

LetterPositionTile valueShare of score
T118%
E218%
C3323%
H4431%
Y5431%
Total13Higher than 91% of 5-letter words (dataset median: 9)

Frequently Asked Questions

Is TECHY a good Wordle opening word?
TECHY has no repeated letters but only 1 vowel, below the ≥2-vowel threshold for opener classification. It falls in the Tier 3 pool of 2,502 words (20.1% of dataset). Better deployed as a second or third guess once vowel positions are partly confirmed.
What does TECHY mean?
TECHY: Easily irritated or annoyed.
What is the Scrabble score for TECHY?
13 points. Tile breakdown: T(1) + E(1) + C(3) + H(4) + Y(4). The highest-value tile is H (4 points), contributing 31% of the total. This score is higher than 91% of the 12,478-word dataset (dataset median: 9 points).
What percentage of 5-letter words have 1 vowel?
3,736 of the 12,478 words in this dataset have exactly 1 vowel (29.9%). Full vowel-count distribution: 0 vowels: 51 (0.4%), 1 vowel: 3,736 (29.9%), 2 vowels: 7,415 (59.4%), 3 vowels: 1,249 (10.0%), 4 vowels: 27 (0.2%).

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