5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

FANUM

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

The site of an Ancient Roman temple or shrine.

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 FANUM performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FANUM 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 75.1% of games, misses completely in 24.9%, and leaves about 252 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,881 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.

F___M F in the 1st position and M in the 5th position F__U_ F in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _A__M A in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

Try next

SOLER STARE SOGER TORSE GRISE TOILE
Words starting with F Words ending with M

First-turn measures

4.21 Entropy (bits)
252 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 33% of evaluated openers
1.74 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FANUM 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
0.68 Volatility
#7,881 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FANUM ranks #7,881 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
810
4 guesses
1,256
5 guesses
230
6 guesses
8
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:
ANU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
27%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

588
346
183
170
168
95
87
58
54
50
45
38
37
34
31
29
29
23
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9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FANUM:

25% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
15% chance
Suggested:
STARE
8% chance
Suggested:
SOLER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.9% →
SOLER 5.98 bits
14.7% →
STARE 5.59 bits
7.8% →
SOLER 5.10 bits
7.2% →
SOGER 5.11 bits
7.1% →
TORSE 4.82 bits
4.0% →
GRISE 4.69 bits
3.7% →
TOILE 5.36 bits
2.5% →
HOISE 4.31 bits
2.3% →
SOLER 4.71 bits
2.1% →
STIRE 4.17 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4A1N1U1M3
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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