Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

LEVAS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of leva

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use LEVAS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How LEVAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LEVAS 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 85.4% of games, misses completely in 14.6%, and leaves about 147 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,907 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe LEVAS 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.

4.82 Entropy (bits)
147 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LEVAS 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,907 Rank among openers
Opening with LEVAS 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 3.68 average. It ranks #5,907 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
842
4 guesses
1,200
5 guesses
217
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AELS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
22%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

LEVAS can come back 97 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

347 answers
255 answers
237 answers
162 answers
127 answers
112 answers
112 answers
95 answers
83 answers
83 answers
72 answers
46 answers
43 answers
39 answers
35 answers
30 answers
28 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1E1V4A1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing LEVAS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LEVAS:

15% chance
Suggested:
COUNT
11% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
10% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.6% →
COUNT 5.80 bits
10.7% →
TRONE 5.32 bits
9.9% →
CAIRN 5.26 bits
6.8% →
SHOUT 5.06 bits
5.3% →
COULD 4.76 bits
4.7% →
SPIRE 4.82 bits
4.7% →
TARGE 4.76 bits
4.0% →
DETER 4.44 bits
3.5% →
SHART 4.50 bits
3.5% →
ELIDE 4.33 bits

Research on LEVAS

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

Optimal play

Opening with LEVAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,397 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 LEVAS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).