5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

VELES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of vele

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 VELES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VELES 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 74.3% of games, misses completely in 25.7%, and leaves about 248 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,878 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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__E_ V in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIN STAIR ROANY TIARE RAINY BLATE
Words starting with V Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.25 Entropy (bits)
248 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 35% of evaluated openers
1.70 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How VELES 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#11,878 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, VELES ranks #11,878 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
723
4 guesses
1,225
5 guesses
336
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
29%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

83 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

606
255
215
212
124
118
97
87
63
50
38
31
29
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26
22
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10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VELES:

26% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
11% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
9% chance
Suggested:
ROANY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.7% →
TRAIN 5.99 bits
10.8% →
STAIR 5.22 bits
9.1% →
ROANY 4.74 bits
9.0% →
TIARE 5.20 bits
5.3% →
RAINY 4.27 bits
5.0% →
STAIR 4.69 bits
4.1% →
RAINY 4.53 bits
3.7% →
BLATE 4.50 bits
2.7% →
SHALL 4.24 bits
2.1% →
COALY 3.93 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4E1L1E1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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