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Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

FEESE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of fess (“horizontal band, in heraldry”).

Verb

Alternative form of feeze (“to freeze”).

Noun

Obsolete form of feeze (“running start”).

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 FEESE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FEESE 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 65.5% of games, misses completely in 34.5%, and leaves about 369 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,190 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 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___E F in the 1st position and E in the 5th position F__S_ F in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TALON SLANT RAILE ROANY CLARY SHART
Words starting with F Words ending with E

First-turn measures

3.71 Entropy (bits)
369 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.4% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FEESE 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.

3.92 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#14,190 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FEESE ranks #14,190 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
610
4 guesses
1,262
5 guesses
411
6 guesses
34

Composition

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
41%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

60 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

815
259
217
212
131
88
77
71
58
38
33
30
28
27
22
18
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9
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FEESE:

35% chance
Suggested:
TALON
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
9% chance
Suggested:
RAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.5% →
TALON 5.76 bits
11.0% →
SLANT 5.07 bits
9.2% →
RAILE 4.31 bits
9.0% →
ROANY 4.52 bits
5.6% →
CLARY 4.98 bits
3.7% →
SHART 4.53 bits
3.3% →
SLANT 3.93 bits
3.0% →
ROANY 4.83 bits
2.5% →
TREAD 4.70 bits
1.6% →
ROULE 3.80 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4E1E1S1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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