5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

LOOKS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /lʊks/

Noun

plural of look

Noun

One's appearance or attractiveness.

“His charm and good looks accounted for much of his popularity in the polls.”

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of look

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 LOOKS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LOOKS 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 68.8% of games, misses completely in 31.2%, and leaves about 332 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,710 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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__K_ L in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE STARE RAILE TRUCE MANOR STALE
Words starting with L Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.86 Entropy (bits)
332 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.09 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LOOKS 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,710 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LOOKS ranks #11,710 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
739
4 guesses
1,247
5 guesses
301
6 guesses
25
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
LOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
27%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

69 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

735
301
299
134
126
83
72
54
53
42
41
35
34
33
25
22
20
20
16
15
13
13
12
11
10
9
9
7
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LOOKS:

31% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
13% chance
Suggested:
STARE
13% chance
Suggested:
RAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.2% →
TIARE 6.28 bits
12.8% →
STARE 5.69 bits
12.7% →
RAILE 5.47 bits
5.7% →
TRUCE 4.77 bits
5.3% →
MANOR 5.26 bits
3.5% →
STALE 4.86 bits
3.1% →
TRINE 4.66 bits
2.3% →
TIARE 4.74 bits
2.2% →
CRATE 4.88 bits
1.8% →
CRUET 4.18 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1O1O1K5S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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