5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

LOUIS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Any gold or silver coin issued by the French kings from Louis XIII to Louis XVI and bearing their image on the obverse side, particularly the gold louis d'ors, originally a French form of the Spanish doubloon but varying in value between 10 and 24 livres.

Noun

The louis d'or constitutionnel, a 24-livre gold coin issued by the First French Republic.

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 LOUIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LOUIS 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 84.6% of games, misses completely in 15.4%, and leaves about 135 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,956 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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__I_ L in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRACE TRINE PEART CARLE CRANE CARTE
Words starting with L Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.90 Entropy (bits)
135 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 78% of evaluated openers
1.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LOUIS 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#3,956 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LOUIS ranks #3,956 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
964
4 guesses
1,113
5 guesses
202
6 guesses
22
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
3 vowels
Common:
ILOSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
27%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

92 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

362
212
168
158
150
119
100
78
78
64
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57
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43
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LOUIS:

15% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
7% chance
Suggested:
PEART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.4% →
TRACE 6.04 bits
9.0% →
TRINE 5.45 bits
7.1% →
PEART 5.59 bits
6.7% →
CARLE 4.86 bits
6.4% →
CRANE 5.42 bits
5.0% →
CARTE 4.50 bits
4.2% →
RANCE 4.67 bits
3.3% →
TRINE 4.63 bits
3.3% →
ANILE 4.28 bits
2.7% →
TROPE 4.23 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1O1U1I1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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