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

LOWES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of lowe

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 LOWES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LOWES 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 86.0% of games, misses completely in 14.0%, and leaves about 143 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,233 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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 _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position LO_ES L in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LOWES 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.

4.82 Entropy (bits)
143 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LOWES 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#7,233 Rank among openers
Opening with LOWES 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 3.71 average. It ranks #7,233 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
834
4 guesses
1,195
5 guesses
244
6 guesses
15
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:
ELOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
28%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

LOWES can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

332 answers
287 answers
165 answers
154 answers
141 answers
127 answers
116 answers
112 answers
104 answers
61 answers
60 answers
45 answers
45 answers
45 answers
36 answers
32 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1O1W4E1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

TRAIN TIARE STAIR RAINY ACTOR AIDER

Strategy after playing LOWES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LOWES:

14% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
12% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
7% chance
Suggested:
STAIR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.0% →
TRAIN 5.98 bits
12.1% →
TIARE 5.46 bits
7.0% →
STAIR 5.26 bits
6.5% →
RAINY 4.76 bits
5.9% →
ACTOR 5.01 bits
5.3% →
AIDER 4.20 bits
4.9% →
STAIR 4.80 bits
4.7% →
REATE 4.60 bits
4.4% →
MONTH 4.24 bits
2.6% →
STALK 4.29 bits

Research on LOWES

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

Optimal play

Opening with LOWES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,849 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,104 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71; proven optimal play reaches 3.70. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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

One syllable Say it LOHZ.

Rhymes with THOSE SHOWS KNOWS CHOSE GROWS

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LOWES is a kind of atmosphere or level.

Synonyms FIRST down SMALL blue broken depression

Opposites high PROUD loud superior

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LOWES sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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