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

FLOUR

Yes, FLOUR was the Wordle answer on October 7, 2024 (Wordle #1206).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈflaʊ.ə/[ˈflaʊ̯.ə]/ˈflæʊ.ə/

Noun

Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.

Noun

The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.

Verb

To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.

Verb

To reduce to flour.

Alternative forms: flower

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: October 7, 2024 (#1206).

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

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How FLOUR performs as a guess

FLOUR 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 80.9% of games, misses completely in 19.1%, and leaves about 178 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,612 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___R F in the 1st position and R in the 5th position F__U_ F in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _L__R L in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Try next

STANE TRACE SALLE CONTE CASTE SPANE
Words starting with F Words ending with R

First-turn measures

4.67 Entropy (bits)
178 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 63% of evaluated openers
1.28 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FLOUR 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#4,612 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FLOUR ranks #4,612 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
889
4 guesses
1,202
5 guesses
189
6 guesses
14
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
2 vowels
Common:
LORU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
31%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I N D
F L O O R
F L O U R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FLOUR in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

100 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

451
289
205
150
138
88
83
82
70
61
60
54
49
48
40
39
26
23
23
19
17
15
14
14
14
14
13
12
11
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FLOUR:

19% chance
Suggested:
STANE
12% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
9% chance
Suggested:
SALLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.1% →
STANE 6.17 bits
12.3% →
TRACE 5.61 bits
8.7% →
SALLE 5.59 bits
6.4% →
CONTE 5.24 bits
5.9% →
CASTE 5.05 bits
3.7% →
SPANE 4.93 bits
3.5% →
SHINE 4.67 bits
3.5% →
SAINT 4.22 bits
3.0% →
STANE 4.16 bits
2.6% →
TARRE 4.44 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4L1O1U1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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