5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

LAUAN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈlu(w)ɑn/

Noun

Any of several types of light wood, resembling mahogany, from various trees from the Philippines and Malaysia.

Alternative forms: lawaan, luan

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 LAUAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LAUAN 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 76.8% of games, misses completely in 23.2%, and leaves about 208 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,674 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___N L in the 1st position and N in the 5th position L__A_ L in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__N A in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

TORSE CRATE SLIER TOISE MORSE SLATE
Words starting with L Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.48 Entropy (bits)
208 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 50% of evaluated openers
1.47 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LAUAN 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#8,674 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LAUAN ranks #8,674 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
830
4 guesses
1,200
5 guesses
253
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
3 vowels
Common:
ALNU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
32%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

84 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

548
207
200
177
152
139
91
62
53
48
48
47
45
39
36
33
33
31
27
22
21
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19
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14
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9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LAUAN:

23% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
9% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.2% →
TORSE 6.22 bits
8.8% →
CRATE 5.60 bits
8.5% →
SLIER 4.95 bits
7.5% →
TOISE 5.37 bits
6.4% →
MORSE 4.99 bits
5.9% →
TORSE 4.83 bits
3.9% →
SLATE 4.47 bits
2.6% →
SCOTE 4.82 bits
2.2% →
TREAD 4.23 bits
2.0% →
SOWER 4.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1A1U1A1N1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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