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

FEYER

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

comparative form of fey: more fey

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

Related meanings

Synonyms touched insane supernatural

Opposites natural sane

Use FEYER in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.8% of possible answers.

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 FEYER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FEYER 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 76.5% of games, misses completely in 23.5%, and leaves about 242 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,802 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe FEYER 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.

4.24 Entropy (bits)
242 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FEYER 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#10,802 Rank among openers
Opening with FEYER left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,802 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
760
4 guesses
1,246
5 guesses
282
6 guesses
22

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
31%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

FEYER can come back 78 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

561 answers
306 answers
260 answers
218 answers
131 answers
100 answers
78 answers
67 answers
66 answers
48 answers
36 answers
36 answers
31 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4E1Y4E1R1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing FEYER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FEYER:

24% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
13% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
11% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.5% →
SAINT 6.13 bits
12.8% →
SLANT 5.67 bits
10.9% →
COAST 5.48 bits
9.1% →
SAULT 4.76 bits
5.5% →
COAST 4.83 bits
4.2% →
ROAST 3.46 bits
3.3% →
ALIEN 4.39 bits
2.8% →
SORAL 3.96 bits
2.8% →
SLANT 4.50 bits
2.0% →
SAINT 4.04 bits

Research on FEYER

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

Optimal play

Opening with FEYER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,468 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 FEYER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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
FEYER 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).