5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

FIRTH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /fɜːθ//fɝθ//fɪɹθ/

Noun

An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary.

Noun

Alternative form of frith (“a forest used for hunting; a (small) wood; wooded country; land covered mainly by brushwood”).

Alternative forms: frith, fyrth

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 FIRTH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FIRTH 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 77.7% of games, misses completely in 22.3%, and leaves about 207 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,490 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___H F in the 1st position and H in the 5th position F__T_ F in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _I__H I in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

SLANE CANOE SALET TREAT SCALE SOLDE
Words starting with F Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.59 Entropy (bits)
207 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 57% of evaluated openers
1.36 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FIRTH 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#3,490 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FIRTH ranks #3,490 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
933
4 guesses
1,173
5 guesses
183
6 guesses
11
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
28%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

101 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

527
307
179
172
99
87
81
80
74
65
54
48
39
33
28
26
23
21
21
19
17
17
16
16
13
11
11
10
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FIRTH:

22% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
13% chance
Suggested:
CANOE
8% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.3% →
SLANE 6.19 bits
13.0% →
CANOE 5.22 bits
7.6% →
SALET 5.58 bits
7.3% →
SLANE 5.66 bits
4.2% →
TREAT 4.64 bits
3.7% →
SCALE 5.25 bits
3.4% →
SOLDE 4.53 bits
3.4% →
CAUSE 4.79 bits
3.1% →
PRIED 4.48 bits
2.8% →
ANISE 4.52 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4I1R1T1H4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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