5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

SERVO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsɜː.vəʊ//ˈsɝ.voʊ/

Noun

A servomechanism.

Verb

To control by means of servocontrol

Noun

A service station, being a place to buy petrol for cars etc., as well as various convenience items, with or without actual car service facilities.

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 SERVO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SERVO 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 85.3% of games, misses completely in 14.7%, and leaves about 137 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,951 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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.

S___O S in the 1st position and O in the 5th position S__V_ S in the 1st position and V in the 4th position _E__O E in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

PAINT ANILE TONAL IRATE TRAIN SLANT
Words starting with S Words ending with O

First-turn measures

4.88 Entropy (bits)
137 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 77% of evaluated openers
1.07 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SERVO 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#7,951 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SERVO ranks #7,951 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
830
4 guesses
1,187
5 guesses
245
6 guesses
27
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:
EORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
33%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

96 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

346
236
181
175
136
124
98
97
76
71
62
53
47
41
40
37
31
30
28
23
23
20
20
19
18
18
17
16
15
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SERVO:

15% chance
Suggested:
PAINT
10% chance
Suggested:
ANILE
8% chance
Suggested:
TONAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.7% →
PAINT 5.69 bits
10.0% →
ANILE 5.54 bits
7.7% →
TONAL 4.97 bits
7.4% →
IRATE 4.40 bits
5.8% →
TRAIN 5.18 bits
5.3% →
SLANT 4.71 bits
4.2% →
DROOL 4.03 bits
4.1% →
THALE 4.54 bits
3.2% →
PLATE 4.70 bits
3.0% →
SAIST 4.46 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1E1R1V4O1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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