5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer A tier opener

TAILS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /teɪlz/

Noun

plural of tail

Noun

Clipping of tailcoat.

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of tail

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.

Why this solver ranks TAILS highly

This solver ranks TAILS highly because it separates the possible answers well, even though it is not itself a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 86.4% of games, misses completely in 13.6%, and leaves about 100 possible answers on average.

In the current bounded six-turn policy, it ranks #47 of 182 evaluated openers; exact misses rank first, then average guesses among wins.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #23 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.54 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.

T___S T in the 1st position and S in the 5th position T__L_ T in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

DRONE CRANE PRONE COURE DINER MORNE
Words starting with T Words ending with S

First-turn measures

5.40 Entropy (bits)
100 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.54 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TAILS 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.

3.54 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#23 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TAILS ranks #23 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
1,113
4 guesses
1,021
5 guesses
135
6 guesses
13
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:
AILST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
35%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

117 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

320
158
124
117
109
105
93
92
76
73
71
56
45
45
41
37
37
36
36
31
31
25
25
24
21
20
18
18
17
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TAILS:

14% chance
Suggested:
DRONE
7% chance
Suggested:
CRANE
5% chance
Suggested:
PRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.6% →
DRONE 5.97 bits
6.7% →
CRANE 5.44 bits
5.3% →
PRONE 5.33 bits
5.0% →
COURE 4.96 bits
4.6% →
DINER 5.30 bits
4.5% →
MORNE 4.82 bits
3.9% →
CRONE 4.45 bits
3.9% →
ROUET 5.31 bits
3.2% →
DRONE 4.91 bits
3.1% →
PHARE 4.65 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1I1L1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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