5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

LIMAN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /lɪˈmɑn/

Noun

A wide estuary formed as a lagoon at the mouth of one or more rivers, where flow is constrained by a bar of sediments (created by either the current of a sea or a sediment-saturated river), especially in the Black Sea region.

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 LIMAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LIMAN 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 82.1% of games, misses completely in 17.9%, and leaves about 160 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,206 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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 SOLER TRICE ROUTE STALE
Words starting with L Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.83 Entropy (bits)
160 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.12 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LIMAN 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#2,206 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LIMAN ranks #2,206 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
962
4 guesses
1,134
5 guesses
178
6 guesses
14
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)
82%
Green tile
24%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

101 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

423
293
156
129
127
109
89
76
69
62
60
53
48
48
45
30
29
25
25
23
23
22
21
20
19
19
18
16
13
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LIMAN:

18% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
12% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
7% chance
Suggested:
SOLER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.9% →
TORSE 6.32 bits
12.4% →
CRATE 5.73 bits
6.6% →
SOLER 4.76 bits
5.5% →
TRICE 5.47 bits
5.4% →
ROUTE 5.24 bits
4.6% →
STALE 4.69 bits
3.8% →
PORTE 4.51 bits
3.2% →
TRONE 4.52 bits
2.9% →
TARSE 4.39 bits
2.6% →
STIRE 4.26 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1I1M3A1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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