5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

LINES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /laɪnz/

Noun

plural of line

Noun

Words spoken by the actors.

“I have yet to learn my lines.”

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of line

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 LINES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LINES 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 88.0% of games, misses completely in 12.0%, and leaves about 104 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,190 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___S L in the 1st position and S in the 5th position L__E_ L in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position LI_ES L in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

COURT CRATE SHART ALLOT ORATE BEARE
Words starting with L Words ending with S

First-turn measures

5.29 Entropy (bits)
104 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.66 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LINES 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,190 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LINES ranks #1,190 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
982
4 guesses
1,127
5 guesses
154
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:
EILNS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
28%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

282
222
143
134
110
108
94
84
84
57
55
54
51
50
43
42
40
39
37
30
28
25
24
23
19
19
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18
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18

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LINES:

12% chance
Suggested:
COURT
9% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
6% chance
Suggested:
SHART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.0% →
COURT 5.78 bits
9.4% →
CRATE 5.73 bits
6.1% →
SHART 5.34 bits
5.7% →
ALLOT 5.05 bits
4.7% →
ORATE 3.94 bits
4.6% →
SHART 4.93 bits
4.0% →
BEARE 4.49 bits
3.6% →
GRAND 4.97 bits
3.6% →
TAPIR 5.04 bits
2.4% →
ROANY 4.22 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1I1N1E1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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