5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

FLESH

Yes, FLESH was the Wordle answer on August 11, 2021 (Wordle #53).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /flɛʃ/

Noun

The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.

Noun

The skin of a human or animal.

Verb

To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh.

Verb

To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.

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: August 11, 2021 (#53).

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

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How FLESH performs as a guess

FLESH 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 81.7% of games, misses completely in 18.3%, and leaves about 190 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,726 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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__S_ F in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _L__H L in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIN ROATE LOYAL SCANT LEARE PARTE
Words starting with F Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.62 Entropy (bits)
190 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 60% of evaluated openers
1.33 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FLESH 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#5,726 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FLESH ranks #5,726 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
860
4 guesses
1,230
5 guesses
197
6 guesses
12
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:
ELS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
29%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
B L E S S
F L E S H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FLESH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

92 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

431
391
159
154
130
96
74
66
62
58
51
47
40
39
39
32
32
29
23
21
19
18
18
17
16
15
14
13
13
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FLESH:

18% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
17% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
7% chance
Suggested:
LOYAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.3% →
TRAIN 6.04 bits
16.6% →
ROATE 5.26 bits
6.7% →
LOYAL 5.03 bits
6.5% →
SCANT 5.12 bits
5.5% →
LEARE 4.68 bits
4.1% →
PARTE 4.78 bits
3.1% →
THORN 4.84 bits
2.8% →
RUOTE 4.22 bits
2.6% →
BLANK 4.19 bits
2.5% →
TRADE 4.56 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4L1E1S1H4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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