Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

FARTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /fɑːɹts/

Noun

plural of fart

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of fart

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 FARTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FARTS 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 83.3% of games, misses completely in 16.7%, and leaves about 140 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,301 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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.

First-turn measures

4.96 Entropy (bits)
140 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 82% of evaluated openers
0.98 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FARTS 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.66 Volatility
#1,301 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FARTS ranks #1,301 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
969
4 guesses
1,169
5 guesses
144
6 guesses
10
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
1 vowels
Common:
ARST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
29%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

104 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

393
215
169
161
119
116
100
73
72
69
55
50
46
44
42
40
34
33
32
30
25
25
23
21
21
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16
14
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12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FARTS:

17% chance
Suggested:
MOILE
9% chance
Suggested:
CLONE
7% chance
Suggested:
ALANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.7%
MOILE 5.93 bits
9.1%
CLONE 4.97 bits
7.2%
ALANE 5.56 bits
6.8%
SPILE 5.32 bits
5.0%
TOILE 5.19 bits
4.9%
BRACE 4.67 bits
4.2%
COLEY 4.44 bits
3.1%
SHALE 4.64 bits
3.1%
SPINE 4.52 bits
2.9%
ROUET 4.61 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4A1R1T1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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