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FINIS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfɪnɪs//fiːˈniː/

Noun

Of a book or other work: the end.

Noun

plural of fini

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 FINIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FINIS 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 64.9% of games, misses completely in 35.1%, and leaves about 386 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,995 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__I_ F in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FINIS 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.

3.71 Entropy (bits)
386 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 12% of evaluated openers
2.24 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FINIS 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#11,995 Rank among openers
Opening with FINIS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.81 average. It ranks #11,995 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
713
4 guesses
1,272
5 guesses
311
6 guesses
17
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
INS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
25%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

FINIS can come back 65 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

833 answers
356 answers
196 answers
117 answers
97 answers
77 answers
74 answers
68 answers
66 answers
64 answers
59 answers
34 answers
27 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
19 answers
17 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4I1N1I1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

ROATE STARE CRATE PORTE CAGEY CARTE

Strategy after playing FINIS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FINIS:

35% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
15% chance
Suggested:
STARE
8% chance
Suggested:
ROATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.1% →
ROATE 6.13 bits
15.0% →
STARE 5.72 bits
8.3% →
ROATE 5.32 bits
4.9% →
CRATE 5.04 bits
4.1% →
PORTE 4.61 bits
3.2% →
CAGEY 4.67 bits
3.1% →
CARTE 5.14 bits
2.9% →
GRATE 4.56 bits
2.8% →
ROATE 4.60 bits
2.7% →
ALURE 5.01 bits

Research on FINIS

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

Optimal play

Opening with FINIS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,467 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.99 guesses at best and is rank #6,115 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it FIHNIHS. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FINIS is a kind of end or finish.

Synonyms last CLOSE finish conclusion finale

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FINIS 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).