5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

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 209 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener 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.
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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

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LAUAN 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.

4.48 Entropy (bits)
209 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 51% of evaluated openers
1.46 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#8,674 Rank among openers
Opening with LAUAN left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It 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 (3.46 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

LAUAN can come back 84 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

551 answers
209 answers
201 answers
178 answers
152 answers
139 answers
91 answers
63 answers
53 answers
49 answers
48 answers
47 answers
46 answers
39 answers
36 answers
33 answers
33 answers
31 answers
27 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
14 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers

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.

Try next

TORSE CRATE SLIER TOISE MORSE SLATE

Strategy after playing LAUAN

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

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
3.8% →
SLATE 4.47 bits
2.7% →
SCOTE 4.86 bits
2.2% →
TREAD 4.23 bits
2.1% →
SOWER 4.55 bits

Research on LAUAN

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

Optimal play

Opening with LAUAN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #8,998 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 LAUAN can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, because the two figures score different answer lists.

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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it LOWUHN. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LAUAN 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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).