5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

VENIN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A toxic substance found in the venom of poisonous snakes.

Noun

A supposedly identical toxic substance obtained by cleavage of an albumose.

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 VENIN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VENIN 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 73.2% of games, misses completely in 26.8%, and leaves about 307 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,360 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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__I_ V in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _E__N E in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SORAL TARSE SPILT SLART TRIDE ROAST
Words starting with V Words ending with N

First-turn measures

3.91 Entropy (bits)
307 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.04 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How VENIN 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#13,360 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, VENIN ranks #13,360 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
673
4 guesses
1,244
5 guesses
352
6 guesses
39
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:
EIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
26%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

632
463
191
153
124
107
82
63
59
46
42
39
26
23
18
17
17
16
15
14
13
13
13
11
10
10
8
8
7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VENIN:

27% chance
Suggested:
SORAL
20% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
8% chance
Suggested:
SPILT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.8% →
SORAL 5.89 bits
19.6% →
TARSE 5.59 bits
8.1% →
SPILT 4.93 bits
6.5% →
SLART 5.04 bits
5.3% →
TRIDE 4.58 bits
4.5% →
ROAST 5.04 bits
3.5% →
ROAST 4.96 bits
2.7% →
AROSE 4.56 bits
2.5% →
SLART 3.97 bits
2.0% →
SAUCY 3.97 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4E1N1I1N1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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