Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

FEATS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of feat

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of feat

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 FEATS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FEATS 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 86.8% of games, misses completely in 13.2%, and leaves about 125 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,781 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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

All four describe FEATS used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

5.10 Entropy (bits)
125 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 88% of evaluated openers
0.85 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FEATS 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#2,781 Rank among openers
Opening with FEATS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,781 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
879
4 guesses
1,236
5 guesses
149
6 guesses
11
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
32%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

FEATS can come back 107 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

314 answers
258 answers
197 answers
120 answers
115 answers
101 answers
101 answers
92 answers
77 answers
69 answers
68 answers
59 answers
45 answers
45 answers
34 answers
34 answers
34 answers
33 answers
33 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4E1A1T1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing FEATS

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to FEATS.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FEATS:

13% chance
Suggested:
COULD
11% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
8% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.2%
COULD 5.58 bits
10.9%
DROLE 5.32 bits
8.3%
CAROL 5.30 bits
5.1%
LARGE 4.64 bits
4.8%
SOULY 4.70 bits
4.3%
COUNT 5.05 bits
4.3%
POIRE 4.71 bits
3.9%
GENRE 4.24 bits
3.2%
ENTER 4.66 bits
2.9%
TAINT 4.34 bits

Research on FEATS

Game-tree analysis and word research for FEATS, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with FEATS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,500 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with FEATS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it FEETS.

Rhymes with SEATS MEETS BEATS MEATS HEATS

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FEATS is a kind of achievement.

Synonyms effort exploit

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FEATS sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.5 of 5).

In a sentence

I was meant to accomplish extraordinary feats.
© tatoeba.org contributor Nuel (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Felix was boating about his feats.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).