5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

ADIEU

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈdju//əˈdu//əˈdjuː/

Interjection

Said to wish a final farewell; goodbye.

Noun

A farewell, a goodbye; especially a fond farewell, or a lasting or permanent farewell.

“We bid our final adieus to our family, then boarded the ship, bound for America.”

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 ADIEU performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ADIEU 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 93.0% of games, misses completely in 7.0%, and leaves about 125 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,397 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

A__E_ A in the 1st position and E in the 4th position

Try next

COAST TERSE CRUST SLART STOOL RESET
Words starting with A Words ending with U

First-turn measures

4.89 Entropy (bits)
125 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 77% of evaluated openers
1.06 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ADIEU 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#8,397 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ADIEU ranks #8,397 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
836
4 guesses
1,191
5 guesses
253
6 guesses
22
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
4 vowels
Common:
AEIU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
93%
Green tile
29%
All gray
7%

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

288
199
190
190
165
127
118
104
62
59
54
52
49
44
44
39
38
36
35
33
30
26
24
23
23
22
17
16
16
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ADIEU:

12% chance
Suggested:
COAST
8% chance
Suggested:
TERSE
8% chance
Suggested:
CRUST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.2% →
COAST 5.11 bits
8.4% →
TERSE 5.39 bits
8.1% →
CRUST 5.16 bits
8.1% →
SLART 5.29 bits
7.0% →
STOOL 5.13 bits
5.4% →
RESET 4.42 bits
5.0% →
SONLY 4.63 bits
4.4% →
SLANT 4.54 bits
2.6% →
TRAIN 4.53 bits
2.5% →
TORSE 4.49 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1D2I1E1U1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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