5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

FEMME

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

As an opener, it rules out about 78.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /fɛm/

Noun

A woman; a wife; (now chiefly Canada, US) a young woman or girl.

Noun

A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch.

Adjective

Pertaining to a femme; feminine, female.

Adjective

Effeminate (of a man).

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 FEMME performs as a guess

FEMME 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 58.6% of games, misses completely in 41.4%, and leaves about 499 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,375 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.94 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__M_ F in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST SOLAR SLART SAURY STAFF PRASE
Words starting with F Words ending with E

First-turn measures

3.24 Entropy (bits)
499 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
78.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 3% of evaluated openers
2.70 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FEMME 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.

3.94 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#14,375 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FEMME ranks #14,375 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
25
3 guesses
580
4 guesses
1,284
5 guesses
436
6 guesses
26
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
59%
Green tile
35%
All gray
41%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N G
D E U C E
F E M M E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FEMME in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

48 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

976
302
296
124
101
80
52
40
39
36
33
31
31
28
23
18
17
17
14
13
12
11
8
7
6
5
3
3
3
3

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FEMME:

41% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
13% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
13% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

41.4% →
ROAST 5.91 bits
12.8% →
SOLAR 5.12 bits
12.6% →
ROAST 5.10 bits
5.3% →
SLART 4.83 bits
4.3% →
SAURY 4.98 bits
3.4% →
SLART 4.73 bits
2.2% →
SLART 4.29 bits
1.7% →
STAFF 4.35 bits
1.7% →
PRASE 4.08 bits
1.5% →
SLANT 3.57 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4E1M3M3E1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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