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

FELTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of felt

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of felt

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 FELTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FELTS 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 84.0% of games, misses completely in 16.0%, and leaves about 152 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,770 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

F___S F in the 1st position and S in the 5th position F__T_ F in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FELTS 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.

4.82 Entropy (bits)
152 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FELTS 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,770 Rank among openers
Opening with FELTS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,770 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
74
3 guesses
879
4 guesses
1,210
5 guesses
180
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
1 vowels
Common:
ELST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
25%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

FELTS can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

379 answers
284 answers
160 answers
149 answers
142 answers
122 answers
116 answers
90 answers
88 answers
84 answers
50 answers
45 answers
40 answers
36 answers
36 answers
33 answers
30 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4E1L1T1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

ROANY IRONE RAINY TRAIN SNARY SPAER

Strategy after playing FELTS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FELTS:

16% chance
Suggested:
ROANY
12% chance
Suggested:
IRONE
7% chance
Suggested:
RAINY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.0% →
ROANY 5.79 bits
12.0% →
IRONE 5.12 bits
6.7% →
RAINY 4.91 bits
6.3% →
TRAIN 5.26 bits
6.0% →
SNARY 4.92 bits
5.1% →
SPAER 4.79 bits
4.9% →
AINEE 4.63 bits
3.8% →
TREAT 4.64 bits
3.7% →
RANCE 4.81 bits
3.5% →
ROAST 4.62 bits

Research on FELTS

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

Optimal play

Opening with FELTS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,901 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best and is rank #1,032 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it FEHLTS.

Rhymes with BELTS MELTS CELTS PELTS

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FELTS is a kind of material or mat.

Synonyms mat MATTE

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FELTS sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with touch (4.2 of 5).

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).