5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

LIGAN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of lagan.

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 LIGAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LIGAN 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 81.4% of games, misses completely in 18.6%, and leaves about 169 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,573 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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 _I__N I in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

TORSE CRATE SOCLE TRICE ROUTE STALE
Words starting with L Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.82 Entropy (bits)
169 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LIGAN 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#2,573 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LIGAN ranks #2,573 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
931
4 guesses
1,149
5 guesses
180
6 guesses
16
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:
AILN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
24%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

119 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

438
308
156
146
123
117
79
63
58
58
55
54
53
51
35
33
27
25
24
24
23
21
18
17
16
16
15
14
14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LIGAN:

19% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
13% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
7% chance
Suggested:
SOCLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.6% →
TORSE 6.29 bits
13.1% →
CRATE 5.74 bits
6.6% →
SOCLE 4.89 bits
6.2% →
TRICE 5.51 bits
5.2% →
ROUTE 5.25 bits
5.0% →
STALE 4.75 bits
3.4% →
SCOTE 4.37 bits
2.7% →
STILE 4.28 bits
2.5% →
CADET 4.29 bits
2.5% →
TREAD 4.34 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1I1G2A1N1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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