5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

LAXER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

comparative form of lax: more lax

Noun

lacrosse player

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 LAXER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LAXER 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 86.0% of games, misses completely in 14.0%, and leaves about 129 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,215 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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___R L in the 1st position and R in the 5th position L__E_ L in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position LA_ER L in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

Try next

HOIST SEINE COURT SOULY TOISE SCANT
Words starting with L Words ending with R

First-turn measures

4.84 Entropy (bits)
129 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LAXER 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#10,215 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LAXER ranks #10,215 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
764
4 guesses
1,219
5 guesses
286
6 guesses
23
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AELR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
30%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

89 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

329
200
173
141
136
110
109
98
98
95
89
81
61
61
54
37
35
34
32
29
26
24
23
19
19
15
11
11
11
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LAXER:

14% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
8% chance
Suggested:
SEINE
7% chance
Suggested:
COURT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.0% →
HOIST 5.80 bits
8.5% →
SEINE 5.56 bits
7.3% →
COURT 5.21 bits
6.0% →
SOULY 4.61 bits
5.8% →
TOISE 4.52 bits
4.7% →
SCANT 5.11 bits
4.6% →
NASTY 4.05 bits
4.2% →
COAST 4.40 bits
4.2% →
SLANT 4.22 bits
4.0% →
STANE 4.50 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1A1X8E1R1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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