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

LIMEN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A liminal point; the threshold of a physiological or psychological response.

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 LIMEN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LIMEN 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 85.5% of games, misses completely in 14.5%, and leaves about 138 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,423 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.
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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__E_ L in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__N I in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in LIMEN.

First-turn measures

All four describe LIMEN 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.

5.02 Entropy (bits)
138 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LIMEN 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#3,423 Rank among openers
Opening with LIMEN left 1 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 3.64 average. It ranks #3,423 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
924
4 guesses
1,149
5 guesses
190
6 guesses
19
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EILN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
29%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

LIMEN can come back 110 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

345 answers
303 answers
167 answers
124 answers
118 answers
105 answers
104 answers
71 answers
67 answers
62 answers
61 answers
60 answers
59 answers
42 answers
34 answers
32 answers
31 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1I1M3E1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

ROAST DAUNT TEASE STAIR COAST SHART

Strategy after playing LIMEN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LIMEN:

15% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
13% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
7% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.5% →
ROAST 6.13 bits
12.8% →
ROAST 5.73 bits
7.0% →
ROAST 5.09 bits
5.2% →
ROAST 4.38 bits
5.0% →
DAUNT 5.10 bits
4.4% →
TEASE 4.63 bits
4.4% →
STAIR 5.22 bits
3.0% →
COAST 4.97 bits
2.8% →
SHART 4.29 bits
2.6% →
ERASE 4.58 bits

Research on LIMEN

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

Optimal play

Opening with LIMEN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,310 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.78 guesses at best and is rank #939 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it LYMEHN. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LIMEN is a kind of sensation.

Synonyms threshold

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LIMEN sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).