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FLOWY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfləʊi//ˈfloʊi/

Adjective

Flowing; able to flow.

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 FLOWY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FLOWY 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 67.4% of games, misses completely in 32.6%, and leaves about 339 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,886 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___Y F in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position F__W_ F in the 1st position and W in the 4th position _L__Y L in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FLOWY 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.

3.89 Entropy (bits)
339 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 18% of evaluated openers
2.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FLOWY 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,886 Rank among openers
Opening with FLOWY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,886 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
764
4 guesses
1,219
5 guesses
305
6 guesses
18
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
1 vowels
Common:
LO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
35%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

FLOWY can come back 75 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

774 answers
258 answers
231 answers
180 answers
131 answers
117 answers
78 answers
56 answers
56 answers
39 answers
39 answers
32 answers
29 answers
28 answers
25 answers
21 answers
19 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4L1O1W4Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Try next

TARSE TONER RAISE SARED STARE SPACE

Strategy after playing FLOWY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FLOWY:

33% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
11% chance
Suggested:
TONER
10% chance
Suggested:
RAISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.6% →
TARSE 6.35 bits
10.9% →
TONER 5.38 bits
9.7% →
RAISE 5.31 bits
7.6% →
SARED 4.90 bits
5.5% →
STARE 4.89 bits
4.9% →
SPACE 5.12 bits
3.3% →
SATER 5.41 bits
2.4% →
SALLE 4.32 bits
2.4% →
MORAE 4.32 bits
1.6% →
STAIR 4.75 bits

Research on FLOWY

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

Optimal play

Opening with FLOWY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,041 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.93 guesses at best and is rank #4,836 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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 FLOHEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FLOWY sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).