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

VEGAN

Yes, VEGAN was the Wordle answer on February 11, 2026 (Wordle #1698).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈviːɡən//ˈveɪɡən/

Adjective

Not containing animal products (meat, eggs, milk, leather, etc) or inherently involving animal use.

“He eats a completely vegan diet.”

Adjective

Committed to avoiding any product or practice that inherently involves animal use.

“She is not vegan as she eats eggs and wears leather.”

Noun

A person who does not eat, drink or otherwise consume any animal products

Noun

A person committed to avoiding products and practices that inherently involve animal use, including all foods containing animal products, and to abstaining from direct and intentional harm to animals as far as possible; an adherent to veganism.

“Our vegan-friendly shaving brush is made with synthetic bristles instead of badger hair.”

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 11, 2026 (#1698).

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

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How VEGAN performs as a guess

VEGAN 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 80.9% of games, misses completely in 19.1%, and leaves about 201 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,800 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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___N V in the 1st position and N in the 5th position V__A_ V in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _E__N E in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SOULY SIREE SLART COUNT DETER SORAL
Words starting with V Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.50 Entropy (bits)
201 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 52% of evaluated openers
1.45 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How VEGAN 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#8,800 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, VEGAN ranks #8,800 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
762
4 guesses
1,247
5 guesses
252
6 guesses
18
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:
AEN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
24%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L A D E N
B E G A N
V E G A N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches VEGAN in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

98 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

450
330
293
149
119
99
85
66
65
48
42
38
37
35
29
29
28
26
22
21
21
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10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VEGAN:

19% chance
Suggested:
SOULY
14% chance
Suggested:
SIREE
12% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.1% →
SOULY 5.62 bits
14.0% →
SIREE 5.33 bits
12.4% →
SLART 5.29 bits
6.3% →
SLART 4.94 bits
5.0% →
COUNT 5.10 bits
4.2% →
DETER 4.50 bits
3.6% →
SIREE 4.74 bits
2.8% →
SORAL 4.49 bits
2.8% →
SAINT 4.21 bits
2.0% →
GROUT 4.59 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4E1G2A1N1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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