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

FORES

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

No dictionary definition for FORES is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 94.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 FORES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FORES 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 86.4% of games, misses completely in 13.6%, and leaves about 128 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,649 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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Useful pattern pages

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

F___S F in the 1st position and S in the 5th position F__E_ F in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FORES 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.

5.03 Entropy (bits)
128 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 85% of evaluated openers
0.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FORES 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% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#5,649 Rank among openers
Opening with FORES solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,649 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
860
4 guesses
1,199
5 guesses
215
6 guesses
13
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
2 vowels
Common:
EORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
34%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

FORES can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

322 answers
258 answers
172 answers
123 answers
121 answers
115 answers
108 answers
99 answers
97 answers
79 answers
73 answers
53 answers
47 answers
40 answers
39 answers
33 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4O1R1E1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

PAINT LIANE SAULT TRAIN TRACE SLANT

Strategy after playing FORES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FORES:

14% chance
Suggested:
PAINT
11% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
7% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.6% →
PAINT 5.73 bits
10.9% →
LIANE 5.36 bits
7.2% →
SAULT 5.26 bits
5.2% →
TRAIN 5.11 bits
5.1% →
TRACE 4.82 bits
4.8% →
SLANT 4.91 bits
4.5% →
HOTLY 3.83 bits
4.2% →
ALINE 3.43 bits
4.1% →
TALON 5.00 bits
3.3% →
ADORN 4.02 bits

Research on FORES

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

Optimal play

Opening with FORES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,729 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with FORES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68; proven optimal play reaches 3.67. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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

One syllable Say it FAWRZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FORES is a kind of front.

Synonyms forward bow stem foremost

Opposites aft

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FORES 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); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).