5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

INVER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A village on Inver Bay, County Donegal, Ireland (Irish grid ref G 8177).

Proper noun

A settlement on Broad Haven, County Mayo, Ireland (Irish grid ref F 7834; only the Gaelic An tlnbhear appears on maps, but the townland is named Inver).

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 INVER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts INVER 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 83.4% of games, misses completely in 16.6%, and leaves about 165 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,938 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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___R I in the 1st position and R in the 5th position I__E_ I in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _N__R N in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Try next

SAULT SLATE COAST SHALT CRATE STILE
Words starting with I Words ending with R

First-turn measures

4.66 Entropy (bits)
165 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How INVER 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#6,938 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, INVER ranks #6,938 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
819
4 guesses
1,220
5 guesses
222
6 guesses
19

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EINR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
21%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

392
278
210
181
145
132
91
84
74
73
62
55
49
32
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19
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing INVER:

17% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
12% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.6% →
SAULT 5.90 bits
11.8% →
SLATE 5.90 bits
8.9% →
COAST 5.57 bits
7.7% →
SHALT 5.23 bits
6.1% →
CRATE 4.92 bits
5.6% →
COAST 5.05 bits
3.9% →
COAST 3.52 bits
3.6% →
COAST 4.58 bits
3.1% →
SHALT 4.41 bits
3.1% →
STILE 4.56 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1N1V4E1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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