5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

FELID

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfiːlɪd//ˈfilɪd/

Noun

Any member of the cat family (Felidae).

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

By surface analysis, an appellativization from Felid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names); by surface analysis, feline + -id.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Related meanings

Synonyms cat feline

Use FELID in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% of possible answers.

Open Solver with FELID Open Word Finder

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How FELID performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FELID 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 80.2% of games, misses completely in 19.8%, and leaves about 198 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,537 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

F___D F in the 1st position and D in the 5th position F__I_ F in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _E__D E in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position FE_ID F in the 1st position, E in the 2nd position, I in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in FELID.

First-turn measures

All four describe FELID 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.

4.64 Entropy (bits)
198 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FELID 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,537 Rank among openers
Opening with FELID left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,537 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
896
4 guesses
1,171
5 guesses
209
6 guesses
11

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
28%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

FELID can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

472 answers
370 answers
165 answers
158 answers
121 answers
107 answers
102 answers
63 answers
62 answers
50 answers
45 answers
41 answers
35 answers
31 answers
29 answers
28 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4E1L1I1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

ROAST TARSE PRINT COAST SAREE STRAE

Strategy after playing FELID

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FELID:

20% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
16% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
PRINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.8% →
ROAST 6.10 bits
15.5% →
TARSE 5.72 bits
6.9% →
PRINT 5.07 bits
6.6% →
COAST 5.22 bits
5.1% →
SAREE 4.44 bits
4.5% →
STRAE 4.85 bits
4.3% →
RINSE 4.74 bits
2.6% →
COAST 5.14 bits
2.6% →
DAUNT 4.52 bits
2.1% →
STILL 3.89 bits

Research on FELID

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

Optimal play

Opening with FELID, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,826 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 FELID can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FELID sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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