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FEVER

Yes, FEVER was the Wordle answer on January 28, 2025 (Wordle #1319).

As an opener, it rules out about 85.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfiːvə//ˈfivɚ/

Noun

A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.

“There has been a rise in my fever. I think I've the flu.”

Noun

Any of various diseases.

“scarlet fever”

Verb

To put into a fever; to affect with fever.

Verb

To become fevered.

Alternative forms: feaver, fevre

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: January 28, 2025 (#1319).

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

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How FEVER performs as a guess

FEVER 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 68.4% of games, misses completely in 31.6%, and leaves about 337 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,899 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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___R F in the 1st position and R in the 5th position F__E_ F in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__R E in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Try next

SLANT COAST SHALT ALIEN STARY SAINT
Words starting with F Words ending with R

First-turn measures

3.93 Entropy (bits)
337 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FEVER 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,899 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FEVER ranks #11,899 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
724
4 guesses
1,243
5 guesses
324
6 guesses
18
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
30%
All gray
32%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E D
P E N C E
F E V E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FEVER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

77 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

745
320
293
123
93
84
73
53
50
44
33
28
27
26
24
24
24
16
15
13
12
12
12
12
11
10
10
9
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FEVER:

32% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
14% chance
Suggested:
COAST
12% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.6% →
SLANT 5.87 bits
13.6% →
COAST 5.41 bits
12.4% →
SLANT 5.65 bits
5.2% →
COAST 4.78 bits
3.9% →
COAST 3.46 bits
3.6% →
SHALT 4.59 bits
3.1% →
ALIEN 4.38 bits
2.2% →
SLANT 4.55 bits
2.1% →
STARY 3.99 bits
1.9% →
SAINT 3.99 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4E1V4E1R1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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