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

ICING

Yes, ICING was the Wordle answer on January 21, 2025 (Wordle #1312).

As an opener, it rules out about 81.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈaɪsɪŋ/

Noun

A sweet, often creamy and thick glaze made primarily of sugar, often enriched with ingredients like butter, egg whites, or flavorings, typically used for baked goods.

Noun

A minor violation of ice hockey rules, occurring when a player shoots the puck from his/her side of the red line so that it crosses the goal line on the opponent's side. A team playing short-handed is not penalized for this.

Verb

present participle and gerund of ice

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: January 21, 2025 (#1312).

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

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How ICING performs as a guess

ICING 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 61.5% of games, misses completely in 38.5%, and leaves about 426 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,443 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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.

I__N_ I in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _C__G C in the 2nd position and G in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE CHARE SALET SOREL ALURE SLATE
Words starting with I Words ending with G

First-turn measures

3.54 Entropy (bits)
426 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
81.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ICING 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#11,443 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ICING ranks #11,443 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
702
4 guesses
1,352
5 guesses
243
6 guesses
22
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
19%
All gray
38%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
C H I C K
I C I N G

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ICING in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

58 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

909
241
182
171
143
129
81
53
41
39
36
32
31
29
27
21
21
17
16
16
13
11
11
10
9
8
6
5
4
3

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ICING:

39% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
10% chance
Suggested:
CHARE
8% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

38.5% →
TARSE 6.36 bits
10.2% →
CHARE 5.59 bits
7.7% →
SALET 5.20 bits
7.3% →
SOREL 5.43 bits
6.1% →
ALURE 5.44 bits
5.5% →
SLATE 5.22 bits
3.4% →
ROAST 4.67 bits
2.2% →
TALER 4.39 bits
1.7% →
TIARE 4.19 bits
1.7% →
HAOLE 4.50 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1C3I1N1G2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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