Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

LIWAA

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

No dictionary definition for LIWAA is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use LIWAA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 88.3% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How LIWAA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LIWAA 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 74.0% of games, misses completely in 26.0%, and leaves about 280 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,978 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe LIWAA 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.

3.96 Entropy (bits)
280 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LIWAA 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#11,978 Rank among openers
Opening with LIWAA left 2 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 3.81 average. It ranks #11,978 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
725
4 guesses
1,252
5 guesses
320
6 guesses
17

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
22%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

LIWAA can come back 61 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

619 answers
373 answers
228 answers
177 answers
132 answers
127 answers
79 answers
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22 answers
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17 answers
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10 answers
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Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1I1W4A1A1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing LIWAA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LIWAA:

26% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
16% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.0% →
TORSE 6.25 bits
15.6% →
CRATE 5.61 bits
9.6% →
TRINE 5.57 bits
7.4% →
SOUCE 5.07 bits
5.5% →
RONTE 4.83 bits
5.3% →
STALE 4.63 bits
3.3% →
STILE 4.27 bits
3.1% →
NADIR 4.57 bits
2.5% →
TREAD 4.35 bits
2.2% →
SORED 4.88 bits

Research on LIWAA

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

Optimal play

Opening with LIWAA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,518 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.97 guesses at best and is rank #5,689 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).