5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

VACAS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of vaca

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 VACAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VACAS 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 68.3% of games, misses completely in 31.7%, and leaves about 337 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,871 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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.

V___S V in the 1st position and S in the 5th position V__A_ V in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE SUITE ALERT CRINE RONTE THALE
Words starting with V Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.78 Entropy (bits)
337 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How VACAS 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#12,871 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, VACAS ranks #12,871 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
669
4 guesses
1,302
5 guesses
321
6 guesses
22
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:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
24%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

63 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

748
317
219
184
151
98
79
57
45
43
43
38
27
26
25
23
20
18
17
16
11
11
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10
10
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7
7
6
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VACAS:

32% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
SUITE
9% chance
Suggested:
ALERT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.7% →
TOILE 6.00 bits
13.4% →
SUITE 5.37 bits
9.3% →
ALERT 5.42 bits
7.8% →
CRINE 5.30 bits
6.4% →
RONTE 4.77 bits
4.2% →
THALE 4.54 bits
3.4% →
RENAL 4.53 bits
2.4% →
CHARE 4.40 bits
1.9% →
DOREE 4.60 bits
1.8% →
TRONE 4.38 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4A1C3A1S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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