5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

AWING

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈwɪŋ//ˈɔː.ɪŋ/

Adverb

On the wing; flying; fluttering.

Verb

present participle and gerund of awe

Alternative forms: aweing

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 AWING performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AWING 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 76.5% of games, misses completely in 23.5%, and leaves about 257 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,107 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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___G A in the 1st position and G in the 5th position A__N_ A in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _W__G W in the 2nd position and G in the 5th position

Try next

SOREL CARLE TILDE CRUET ROUET ROULE
Words starting with A Words ending with G

First-turn measures

4.25 Entropy (bits)
257 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 36% of evaluated openers
1.70 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How AWING 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,107 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, AWING ranks #8,107 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
828
4 guesses
1,205
5 guesses
255
6 guesses
13
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
2 vowels
Common:
AIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
23%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

85 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

555
452
168
127
105
83
68
64
62
55
55
53
53
34
29
27
23
19
19
18
16
16
14
13
12
12
12
11
11
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AWING:

24% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
19% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
7% chance
Suggested:
TILDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.5% →
SOREL 6.03 bits
19.2% →
CARLE 5.61 bits
7.1% →
TILDE 5.10 bits
5.4% →
CRUET 4.97 bits
4.5% →
ROUET 5.03 bits
3.5% →
ROULE 5.30 bits
2.9% →
SOREL 4.73 bits
2.7% →
BLORE 5.00 bits
2.6% →
TONER 4.41 bits
2.3% →
TORSE 4.70 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1W4I1N1G2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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