5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

ADMAN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A person in the business of devising, writing, illustrating or selling advertisements.

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 ADMAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ADMAN 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 68.5% of games, misses completely in 31.5%, and leaves about 337 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,146 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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___N A in the 1st position and N in the 5th position A__A_ A in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _D__N D in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SOREL TARSE TOISE DROLE ROUSE SALET
Words starting with A Words ending with N

First-turn measures

3.84 Entropy (bits)
337 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 16% of evaluated openers
2.10 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ADMAN 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#10,146 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ADMAN ranks #10,146 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
752
4 guesses
1,285
5 guesses
247
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
20%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

76 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

742
350
226
169
109
84
72
57
57
55
49
44
30
29
19
16
15
14
13
12
10
10
9
9
9
9
9
8
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ADMAN:

31% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
15% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.5% →
SOREL 6.08 bits
14.8% →
TARSE 5.66 bits
9.6% →
TOISE 5.51 bits
7.2% →
DROLE 5.43 bits
4.6% →
ROUSE 5.27 bits
3.6% →
SOREL 4.67 bits
3.1% →
SALET 4.31 bits
2.4% →
SCARE 4.64 bits
2.4% →
LEARY 4.42 bits
2.3% →
SOWER 4.58 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1D2M3A1N1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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