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

TROUT

Yes, TROUT was the Wordle answer on May 4, 2025 (Wordle #1415).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɹaʊt//tɹʌʊt/

Noun

Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.

“Many anglers consider trout to be the archetypical quarry.”

Noun

An objectionable elderly woman.

“Look, you silly old trout, you can't keep bringing home cats! You can't afford the ones you have!”

Verb

To fish for trout.

Verb

To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.

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: May 4, 2025 (#1415).

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

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How TROUT performs as a guess

TROUT 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 76.8% of games, misses completely in 23.2%, and leaves about 204 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,360 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___T T in the 1st position and T in the 5th position T__U_ T in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _R__T R in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SLANE SAYEE LEANY SLICE CADIE HASTE
Words starting with T Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.58 Entropy (bits)
204 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 57% of evaluated openers
1.37 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TROUT 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#8,360 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TROUT ranks #8,360 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
845
4 guesses
1,153
5 guesses
271
6 guesses
25
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ORTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
34%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S N O U T
G R O U T
T R O U T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TROUT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

96 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

548
241
163
161
118
109
101
98
91
50
47
38
36
31
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26
23
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22
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TROUT:

23% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
10% chance
Suggested:
SAYEE
7% chance
Suggested:
LEANY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.2% →
SLANE 6.24 bits
10.2% →
SAYEE 4.92 bits
6.9% →
LEANY 4.93 bits
6.8% →
SLICE 5.01 bits
5.0% →
CADIE 4.71 bits
4.6% →
HASTE 5.19 bits
4.3% →
SLANE 4.76 bits
4.2% →
SORER 4.12 bits
3.9% →
SLANE 5.29 bits
2.1% →
SERRY 4.24 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1O1U1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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