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

FIORD

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of fjord.

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 FIORD performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FIORD 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 77.6% of games, misses completely in 22.4%, and leaves about 202 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,500 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___D F in the 1st position and D in the 5th position F__R_ F in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _I__D I in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FIORD 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.

4.62 Entropy (bits)
202 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 60% of evaluated openers
1.32 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FIORD 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,500 Rank among openers
Opening with FIORD 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 3.65 average. It ranks #3,500 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
949
4 guesses
1,129
5 guesses
198
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
31%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

FIORD can come back 103 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

532 answers
271 answers
193 answers
163 answers
115 answers
100 answers
91 answers
77 answers
68 answers
67 answers
42 answers
41 answers
40 answers
33 answers
32 answers
32 answers
26 answers
23 answers
21 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4I1O1R1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SLATE CASTE SLANE SALET TARSE PALET

Strategy after playing FIORD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FIORD:

22% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
11% chance
Suggested:
CASTE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.4% →
SLATE 6.42 bits
11.4% →
CASTE 5.54 bits
8.1% →
SLANE 5.65 bits
6.9% →
SALET 5.13 bits
4.8% →
SLATE 4.76 bits
4.2% →
TARSE 4.37 bits
3.8% →
PALET 4.45 bits
3.2% →
DEALT 5.08 bits
2.9% →
PRATE 4.55 bits
2.8% →
LEAST 4.99 bits

Research on FIORD

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

Optimal play

Opening with FIORD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,458 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 FIORD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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 FYURD. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FIORD is a kind of recess.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FIORD 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); 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).