5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

VESTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of vest

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of vest

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 VESTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VESTS 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 283 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,936 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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__T_ V in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL RAILE TRAIL SNARL CLARY PAIRE
Words starting with V Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.89 Entropy (bits)
283 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 18% of evaluated openers
2.06 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How VESTS 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#12,936 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, VESTS ranks #12,936 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
660
4 guesses
1,326
5 guesses
304
6 guesses
26
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
1 vowels
Common:
EST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
21%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

61 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

607
399
205
169
131
130
112
101
59
46
41
39
29
22
21
17
16
15
14
13
12
11
11
11
9
9
9
9
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VESTS:

26% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
17% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.7% →
CAROL 5.87 bits
16.9% →
RAILE 5.28 bits
8.7% →
TRAIL 5.23 bits
7.2% →
SNARL 4.92 bits
5.6% →
CLARY 4.83 bits
5.5% →
PAIRE 4.83 bits
4.7% →
TALER 4.74 bits
4.3% →
ROAST 4.52 bits
2.5% →
RAINY 4.44 bits
2.0% →
ARIEL 4.49 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4E1S1T1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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