5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

FATAL

FATAL is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 88.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪ.təl/[ˈfeɪ.ɾɫ̩]

Adjective

Causing death or destruction.

“a fatal wound; a fatal disease; that fatal day; a fatal mistake”

Adjective

Causing a sudden end to the running of a program.

“a fatal error; a fatal exception”

Noun

A fatality; an event that leads to death.

Noun

A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 FATAL performs as a guess

FATAL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 72.8% of games, misses completely in 27.2%, and leaves about 263 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,536 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.

F___L F in the 1st position and L in the 5th position F__A_ F in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__L A in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

RIONE SHIER BOULE CRANE CORSE REAST
Words starting with F Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.24 Entropy (bits)
263 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 35% of evaluated openers
1.71 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FATAL 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
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,536 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FATAL ranks #8,536 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
806
4 guesses
1,233
5 guesses
249
6 guesses
14
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:
ALT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
31%
All gray
27%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C L I N T
A P T L Y
F A T A L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FATAL in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

85 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

642
275
210
194
128
82
76
59
50
49
46
44
40
37
27
27
26
24
20
18
18
17
15
13
12
12
11
9
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FATAL:

27% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
12% chance
Suggested:
SHIER
9% chance
Suggested:
BOULE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.2% →
RIONE 6.13 bits
11.7% →
SHIER 5.64 bits
8.9% →
BOULE 5.05 bits
8.2% →
CRANE 5.38 bits
5.4% →
CORSE 4.80 bits
3.5% →
REAST 4.77 bits
3.2% →
SLANE 4.53 bits
2.5% →
SOWER 4.20 bits
2.1% →
CEDAR 4.52 bits
2.1% →
COURE 4.55 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4A1T1A1L1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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