5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess A tier opener

TRAIL

Yes, TRAIL was the Wordle answer on February 17, 2025 (Wordle #1339).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɹeɪl/

Verb

To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).

“The hunters trailed their prey deep into the woods.”

Verb

To drag (something) behind on the ground.

“You'll get your coat all muddy if you trail it around like that.”

Noun

The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.

“trail of blood”

Noun

A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: February 17, 2025 (#1339).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How TRAIL performs as a guess

TRAIL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 90.5% of games, misses completely in 9.5%, and leaves about 81 possible answers on average.

In the current bounded six-turn policy, it ranks #63 of 182 evaluated openers; exact misses rank first, then average guesses among wins.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #35 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

T___L T in the 1st position and L in the 5th position T__I_ T in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _R__L R in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

SHONE SORER SOUCE SNIDE SONDE SOUTH
Words starting with T Words ending with L

First-turn measures

5.60 Entropy (bits)
81 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.6% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.35 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TRAIL 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
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#35 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TRAIL ranks #35 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
80
3 guesses
1,106
4 guesses
986
5 guesses
166
6 guesses
12
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:
AILRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
36%
All gray
10%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I S T
T R A I L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TRAIL in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

130 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

225
164
135
129
121
99
88
68
62
62
61
60
54
51
49
48
40
39
37
32
30
28
27
27
24
23
23
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20
19

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TRAIL:

10% chance
Suggested:
SHONE
7% chance
Suggested:
SORER
6% chance
Suggested:
SOUCE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.5% →
SHONE 5.77 bits
7.0% →
SORER 5.13 bits
5.7% →
SOUCE 5.15 bits
5.5% →
SNIDE 5.30 bits
5.1% →
SONDE 5.00 bits
4.2% →
SOUTH 5.22 bits
3.7% →
PARER 4.54 bits
2.9% →
SCONE 4.35 bits
2.6% →
SALLE 4.45 bits
2.6% →
SHAKE 4.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1A1I1L1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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