5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

VERBS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of verb

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of verb

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 VERBS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VERBS 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 79.7% of games, misses completely in 20.3%, and leaves about 204 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,116 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___S V in the 1st position and S in the 5th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TONAL ANILE SLANT TRAIN IRATE THALE
Words starting with V Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.35 Entropy (bits)
204 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 41% of evaluated openers
1.60 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How VERBS 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
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#9,116 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, VERBS ranks #9,116 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
784
4 guesses
1,238
5 guesses
260
6 guesses
15
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
1 vowels
Common:
ERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
20%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

479
255
237
206
191
138
85
67
63
56
50
46
41
33
29
24
24
23
22
22
19
17
16
15
15
14
14
12
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VERBS:

20% chance
Suggested:
TONAL
11% chance
Suggested:
ANILE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.3% →
TONAL 5.77 bits
10.8% →
ANILE 5.54 bits
10.1% →
SLANT 5.22 bits
8.7% →
TRAIN 5.26 bits
8.1% →
IRATE 4.35 bits
5.9% →
SLANT 4.82 bits
3.6% →
THALE 4.49 bits
2.8% →
BLOAT 4.90 bits
2.7% →
COALY 4.50 bits
2.4% →
COAST 4.43 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4E1R1B3S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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