5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

FAUNA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːnə/

Noun

Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time, biological group, etc.

“the flora and fauna”

Noun

A particular group of animals as distinguished from another.

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 FAUNA performs as a guess

FAUNA is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 70.8% of games, misses completely in 29.2%, and leaves about 305 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,984 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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___A F in the 1st position and A in the 5th position F__N_ F in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TORSE SLATE SOLER SILER CLOSE GORSE
Words starting with F Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.92 Entropy (bits)
305 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.1% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FAUNA 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#11,984 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FAUNA ranks #11,984 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
708
4 guesses
1,278
5 guesses
308
6 guesses
18

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ANU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
31%
All gray
29%

Example solver route

R O A T E
N A S A L
M A N G A
F A U N A

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FAUNA in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

69 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

688
345
182
180
170
87
77
66
56
50
44
39
36
29
26
25
25
21
18
14
14
11
10
10
9
8
7
7
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FAUNA:

29% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
15% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SOLER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.2% →
TORSE 6.09 bits
14.6% →
SLATE 5.63 bits
7.7% →
SOLER 4.87 bits
7.6% →
TORSE 4.85 bits
7.2% →
SILER 5.14 bits
3.7% →
CLOSE 4.91 bits
3.3% →
GORSE 4.61 bits
2.8% →
GRISE 4.53 bits
2.4% →
TOILE 4.86 bits
2.1% →
CONTE 4.07 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4A1U1N1A1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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