5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

LIMED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of lime

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 LIMED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LIMED 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 82.7% of games, misses completely in 17.3%, and leaves about 162 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,182 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___D L in the 1st position and D in the 5th position L__E_ L in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__D I in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST COAST SAINT CEASE MACRO TRINE
Words starting with L Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.84 Entropy (bits)
162 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.1% 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 LIMED 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#3,182 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LIMED ranks #3,182 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
924
4 guesses
1,147
5 guesses
199
6 guesses
11
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)
83%
Green tile
29%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

108 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

408
304
178
152
137
108
76
73
68
66
60
56
41
37
30
25
23
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LIMED:

17% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
13% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
8% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.3% →
ROAST 6.15 bits
12.9% →
ROAST 5.79 bits
7.5% →
COAST 5.24 bits
6.4% →
SAINT 5.42 bits
5.8% →
ROAST 4.59 bits
4.6% →
CEASE 4.58 bits
3.2% →
MACRO 5.04 bits
3.1% →
TRINE 4.69 bits
2.9% →
COAST 4.33 bits
2.8% →
SLART 4.42 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1I1M3E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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