5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

LIFEY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Characteristic of life (all senses)

Adjective

Full of life

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 LIFEY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LIFEY 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 83.5% of games, misses completely in 16.5%, and leaves about 174 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,755 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___Y L in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position L__E_ L in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST TRAIN COAST PLATE TRINE SLART
Words starting with L Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.63 Entropy (bits)
174 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 60% of evaluated openers
1.32 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LIFEY 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
0.73 Volatility
#8,755 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LIFEY ranks #8,755 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
804
4 guesses
1,192
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
36%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

95 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

390
347
164
153
148
148
108
96
64
63
50
45
43
34
28
28
24
23
22
22
19
18
17
17
17
14
13
13
13
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LIFEY:

17% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
15% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
7% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.5% →
ROAST 6.04 bits
14.7% →
ROAST 5.71 bits
7.0% →
TRAIN 5.49 bits
6.5% →
ROAST 4.61 bits
6.3% →
ROAST 4.74 bits
6.3% →
COAST 5.29 bits
4.6% →
PLATE 4.62 bits
4.1% →
TRINE 4.52 bits
2.7% →
SLART 4.28 bits
2.7% →
ROAST 4.48 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1I1F4E1Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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