5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

LAMIA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈleɪmɪə//ˈleɪ.mi.ə/

Noun

A monster preying upon human beings, who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent.

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 LAMIA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LAMIA 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 75.4% of games, misses completely in 24.6%, and leaves about 246 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,243 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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.

L___A L in the 1st position and A in the 5th position L__I_ L in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TORSE TRINE TRACE SOCLE CONTE CLOTE
Words starting with L Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.23 Entropy (bits)
246 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 34% of evaluated openers
1.72 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LAMIA 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#9,243 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LAMIA ranks #9,243 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
818
4 guesses
1,198
5 guesses
273
6 guesses
18
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
25%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

81 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

580
286
261
182
144
127
80
70
56
38
32
28
28
27
23
22
19
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10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LAMIA:

25% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
12% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
11% chance
Suggested:
TRACE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.6% →
TORSE 6.27 bits
12.1% →
TRINE 5.45 bits
11.1% →
TRACE 5.63 bits
7.7% →
SOCLE 4.86 bits
6.1% →
CONTE 4.84 bits
5.4% →
CLOTE 4.65 bits
3.4% →
STILE 4.43 bits
3.0% →
TORSE 5.19 bits
2.4% →
TRONE 4.88 bits
1.6% →
SOLVE 4.10 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1A1M3I1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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