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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

VEILS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of veil

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 VEILS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VEILS 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 83.3% of games, misses completely in 16.7%, and leaves about 157 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,509 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.
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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__L_ V in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in VEILS.

First-turn measures

All four describe VEILS used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.78 Entropy (bits)
157 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 70% of evaluated openers
1.16 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How VEILS 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#7,509 Rank among openers
Opening with VEILS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,509 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
850
4 guesses
1,163
5 guesses
254
6 guesses
22
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EILS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
29%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

VEILS can come back 92 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

396 answers
277 answers
183 answers
146 answers
138 answers
133 answers
107 answers
94 answers
67 answers
58 answers
49 answers
45 answers
42 answers
41 answers
39 answers
37 answers
35 answers
33 answers
28 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4E1I1L1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

COURT ORATE ROAST ANTIC CLOAK STRAE

Strategy after playing VEILS

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to VEILS.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VEILS:

17% chance
Suggested:
COURT
12% chance
Suggested:
ORATE
8% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.7% →
COURT 5.82 bits
11.7% →
ORATE 5.35 bits
7.7% →
ROAST 5.19 bits
6.1% →
ANTIC 5.18 bits
5.8% →
CLOAK 4.85 bits
5.6% →
STRAE 4.93 bits
4.5% →
TRADE 4.66 bits
4.0% →
RANEE 4.51 bits
2.8% →
TRONE 4.27 bits
2.4% →
RONTE 4.32 bits

Research on VEILS

Game-tree analysis and word research for VEILS, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with VEILS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,883 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,878 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it VAYLZ.

Rhymes with SALES WALES FAILS MALES TALES

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, VEILS is a kind of garment or whole.

Synonyms hide obscure

Opposites unveil

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
VEILS sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.0 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).