5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

FELON

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfɛlən/

Adjective

Of a person or animal, their actions, thoughts, etc.: brutal, cruel, harsh, heartless; also, evil, wicked.

Adjective

Of a place: harsh, savage, wild; of a thing: deadly; harmful.

Noun

A person who has committed a felony (“a serious criminal offence”); specifically, one who has been tried and convicted of such a crime.

Noun

A small infected sore; an abscess, a boil.

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 FELON performs as a guess

FELON 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 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 153 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,800 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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___N F in the 1st position and N in the 5th position F__O_ F in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _E__N E in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

STAIR COURT GIANT PLATE TORSE SHART
Words starting with F Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.80 Entropy (bits)
153 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 72% of evaluated openers
1.15 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FELON 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#4,800 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FELON ranks #4,800 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
878
4 guesses
1,218
5 guesses
191
6 guesses
9
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELNO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
27%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
D E M O N
F E L O N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FELON in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

93 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

352
326
168
146
125
119
108
106
78
60
59
58
38
37
36
26
26
25
24
23
21
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14
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FELON:

15% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
14% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
7% chance
Suggested:
COURT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.9% →
STAIR 5.89 bits
13.8% →
STAIR 5.58 bits
7.1% →
COURT 5.14 bits
6.2% →
STAIR 4.96 bits
5.3% →
GIANT 5.20 bits
5.0% →
PLATE 4.60 bits
4.6% →
TORSE 4.50 bits
4.5% →
SHART 5.05 bits
3.3% →
ANISE 4.72 bits
2.5% →
TASER 4.38 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4E1L1O1N1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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