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

FLITE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

a quarrel, dispute, wrangling.

Noun

a scolding.

Verb

to dispute, quarrel, wrangle, brawl.

Verb

to scold, jeer.

Alternative forms: flyte

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

Etymology

From Middle English flyten (“to argue, quarrel”), from Old English flītan (“to strive, contend”), from Proto-West Germanic *flītan (“to strive, contend”). Akin to German befleissen (“to apply oneself diligently, endeavor”), Swedish beflita (“to apply to, study”), Norwegian Bokmål beflitte (“to endeavour, strive”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use FLITE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

Open Solver with FLITE Open Word Finder

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 FLITE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FLITE 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 84.4% of games, misses completely in 15.6%, and leaves about 133 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,821 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

F___E F in the 1st position and E in the 5th position F__T_ F in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _L__E L in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position FL_TE F in the 1st position, L in the 2nd position, T in the 4th position, and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FLITE 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.

5.11 Entropy (bits)
133 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FLITE 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#3,821 Rank among openers
Opening with FLITE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,821 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
90
3 guesses
887
4 guesses
1,148
5 guesses
207
6 guesses
19

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EILT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
39%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

FLITE can come back 125 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

371 answers
221 answers
176 answers
148 answers
127 answers
111 answers
109 answers
88 answers
63 answers
60 answers
59 answers
44 answers
43 answers
43 answers
40 answers
38 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4L1I1T1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SONAR ROAST RALLY SETER NADIR LEGAL

Strategy after playing FLITE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FLITE:

16% chance
Suggested:
SONAR
9% chance
Suggested:
SONAR
7% chance
Suggested:
SONAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.6% →
SONAR 5.71 bits
9.3% →
SONAR 5.25 bits
7.4% →
SONAR 4.96 bits
6.2% →
ROAST 5.45 bits
5.3% →
RALLY 4.95 bits
4.7% →
SETER 4.80 bits
4.6% →
NADIR 4.85 bits
3.7% →
LEGAL 4.34 bits
2.6% →
SNARY 4.49 bits
2.5% →
COAST 4.31 bits

Research on FLITE

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

Optimal play

Opening with FLITE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,881 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best and is rank #998 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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
FLITE 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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).